LOGINI hesitated, considering telling him no, that I wanted to be left alone. But his offer intrigued me, and before I knew it, I was following him out of the library and down the hall.There was a room at the end of the hall that I had never really paid much attention to before; just one of the many roo
Avery’s POVI returned to Evergreen a little before sunset, after meeting briefly with Aldric and the pack healers to discuss the next moves now that the trial period was over. The medicine was set to be rolled out to the other sick children within the fortnight, the news of which made up for the ra
To be fair, Sebastian looked genuinely offended by that.“That’s where you’re wrong, Gideon. I’m offering her this arrangement because I care about her and Bjorn. I love them both.”“And yet,” I said, “the feeling isn’t mutual. Not in the way you want it to be, at least.” I took a small step forward
Avery’s POVI was about to respond when Sebastian spoke first.“That’s none of your business,” he said.Gideon snapped his head toward him. “I think it is my business, when it involves my mate.”“She may be your mate, but she doesn’t belong to you.”“She doesn’t belong to you either, Sebastian.” Gid
Avery’s POVThe drive to Aldric’s pack was quiet, I had to give Sebastian that. He didn’t press me for an answer just yet regarding his proposal. I didn’t want to give him one.When we arrived, I was unsurprised to see Gideon’s car sitting in the driveway. Sebastian’s fingers tightened a little arou
She was right. I sat. She handed me a small basket of green beans and I got to work snapping the stems off, perhaps a little more violently than I should have. To her credit, she didn’t ask anything, and didn’t seem to mind when I shoved a couple of the beans into my mouth as I worked.Finally, abou
I tried to imagine him as a little kid, feet swinging off of a stool as he ate his lunches.“What was it like to grow up with a powerful wolf?” I asked, curiously, “My own wolf didn’t manifest when I was a child, so I never knew what it was like.”“It was a sudden change,” he admitted, staring off i
He grabbed my hand and placed the eyepatch in my palm. It was still warm from resting on his face. He curled my fingers around it and squeezed tight, so tight it hurt. “Don’t you want to be my queen?”“I’ll never be your rogue queen.”He snorted. “Of course not. I would never expect a Lycan princess
His words struck a chord in me, and I paused to consider. After a while, only one conclusion was obvious.“She knows my half-sister, and through her she probably knows… what happened to me in Silvermoon. She knew that I had been betrayed.”Gideon inhaled a heavy breath.“Tell me more about that,” he
Gideon’s POVThe darkness was my enemy.I couldn’t remember why I was fighting, only that it was essential that I wake up. I punched upwards through the shadows. My limbs felt heavy and unresponsive, and I knew I still dreamed because the darkness was made of hands that clutched at me and tried to d







