LOGIN“I trusted you,” I said, turning away. “I gave you the benefit of the doubt after everything that happened because I thought you were still the man I cared for, who cared for me and my son when we needed you the most. But as it turns out, you’re just as conniving and manipulative as I thought. All t
Avery’s POVBy the time I made it to Evergreen, my anger had turned from a small bud of confusion and hurt to an enormous, blooming corpse flower that blotted out everything, filling the car with its vile stench.The same tired young guard lifted his hand, waving, a confused expression on his face a
I didn’t recall putting it on. But I also didn’t recall taking it off since the pond.I didn’t recall much of anything right now.My mother leaned in, studying the pendant again with the same expression she had the first day she’d seen it. Her eyebrows shot up, and she suddenly straightened as if re
Avery’s POVI must have stood in the hot shower, desperately trying to get the spray to soothe the shivering in my bones, for a full half hour before I realized that the way I was shaking had nothing to do with the cold.Gideon was waiting outside the bathroom door when I finally gave up on the show
I kept walking, pulling my jacket tighter around myself to ward off the chill. Avery’s scent grew thinner with every step, the forest swallowing it almost as fast as I could find it. I had just begun to lose it, wondering if I had gone in the wrong direction after all, when I heard the sound of a sp
Gideon’s POVI reached for Avery in my sleep and found cold sheets.That alone wouldn’t have woken me all the way. She’d been getting up early all week, sneaking off to the greenhouse before breakfast.But this time, it was different. Because the clock on the nightstand read three o’clock, hours bef
Avery’s POVDierdra sprawled across the floor like a rag doll. She wasn’t moving. “What have you done?” Gideon snarled, leaping across the space towards his ‘mate’. Had I killed her? She looked so limp and broken where she lay. I couldn’t believe that I could have done such a thing, even with my w
Avery’s POVAnd then he was gone. The one person I thought might be able to intervene, who might have been able to throw me a lifeline, instead turned and walked out my bedroom door. He held all the cards, and instead of playing the hand that could have saved me, he had done the equivalent of polit
Avery’s POVAfter Jessica’s unpleasant visit, I felt as though even my long-shot hope had been decimated. I had written the letter as she requested, though it pained me to have to write my false testament to her character. It wasn’t all lies. I had no doubt that ruthlessness, pride, tenacity, and a
Avery’s POVGideon emerged from the bathroom, and you could hear a pin drop. He paused in the middle of drying his hair with a towel, and glared around the room at the assembled three of us; myself, Zara, and Dierdra. Gideon looked with bemusement at the group of Alphas and Lunas that were now sta







