LOGINI thought about that for a moment, letting Sebastian’s words sink in. Gideon kicked down the bathroom door to get to me, sensing my need through the bond.It wasn’t that it surprised me, exactly. In fact, it didn’t surprise me at all.That was the hard part. Knowing that, even when I was drugged and
Avery’s POVThe smell of antiseptic burned my nostrils. I heard machines beeping around me, and fluorescent lights flickering faintly behind my eyelids.For a moment, I thought I was in hell, or some kind of purgatory.I always hated hospitals. They were too loud, too sterile, too chaotic. My wolf c
Avery’s POVMy head was spinning more than it should have been.I realized that now, as I stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror.This was more than a glass of wine and a single strong cocktail. My face was swimming in front of me, like there were two of me staring back from the mirror. The
I tried to tell myself that it was unhealthy. That even if Gideon wanted me, he was still with Fiona, an eighteen year old girl. I couldn’t look past that.“Here you go.” The bartender handed me my drink, snapping me from my reverie. “Please enjoy it.”“Thank you.” I took a sip. It was the perfect a
Avery’s POVMy mouth dropped open at Fiona’s words.A “fresh divorcee from the human lands”? I would “find someone who actually wanted to stay with me for once?”When I first met Fiona, I’d thought she was just an unfortunate puppet of the men in her life. Now, I was starting to change my mind on th
“And because you were surrounded by humans, no one could replace the mark,” Sebastian added.“Something like that.”That was the easier explanation, anyway.Truthfully, there were plenty of werewolf men in the human lands who tried to get close to me over the years. This wasn’t the first conversatio
Gideon’s POV“W-what? Your brother? The pack doctor?” Avery tilted her head, confused. The softness of… whatever she’d been doing in the moonlight was falling away as she tucked her robe around herself.“Yes. My brother. Hudson. Don’t see him.”“Ok, but why?” She acquiesced so easily that something
Sweat broke out on my brow from the sudden fever break. Somewhere in my soul, my wolf was making a low, growling purr of approval.The amplitude of the magic swirling around us increased suddenly. The magic flowing through my blood was singing, a crystalline hum, but there were other notes within it
Avery’s POVThe minute the silver arrowhead pulled from the wolf’s flesh in the careful grip of my pliers, Gideon shifted. Fur and bone wavered in the nauseating, disconcerting fisheye lens of transformation, and then Gideon was crouched on the forest floor beside me.“Avery.” He said.He might have
Gideon was right next to me again, his handsome face inches from mine, and he didn’t look happy. “Explain.” he grated out between clenched teeth. “Uh…” I stammered. Why did he have to be all up in my space? “Ok. Why did you want to come to Silvermoon today?” Gideon exhaled slowly, but indulged







