Se connecterBefore I could answer, she walked past me, almost mechanically, and left the room.I stared after her, not sure what to think. She was acting odd lately, and that parting comment was strange. I thought about what Bjorn said last night and decided to find him.Just as I suspected, he was upstairs in
Gideon’s POVSebastian turned and left, glancing at us over his shoulder one last time before he climbed into his car. I watched as he started the engine and pulled out of the driveway.When he was gone, I looked down at Avery, standing beside me with her head against my chest. “You okay?” I asked.
“She took it off?” I blurted out.Gideon arched a brow. He didn’t answer.“Let me see her—”“She doesn’t want you, Sebastian,” he cut me off. “She never did, and you’ve hurt her enough for three lifetimes. If you come near her again, if I catch your scent within a mile of this place, I won’t be as p
Sebastian’s POVColt came back from the party around dawn. I hadn’t slept. I’d been pacing the room for hours, the same way I had every night for weeks, waiting on a knock or a shadow or the smell of soil that meant she was coming for me again.When the door finally opened, it was just Colt, his sui
“Do you think he did?” she asked.I looked down at the dark glass in her lap.“I don’t know,” I admitted.I had no way of knowing whether Bjorn had heard a single word I had said or if he just felt the pull with no real understanding of it. Either way, there was nothing more I could do about it toni
Avery’s POVI worked through the rest of the day and into the evening, hunched over the witch’s table with tools that definitely weren’t meant for what I was using them for, grinding and steeping and mixing until my back ached and my eyes burned from the fumes.I started by drying a handful of the s







