LOGIN** Poppy’s POV **“Turn around,” I breathe.He raises his eyebrows. “You are face down.”“Alaric.” He laughs quietly, and turns his head towards the wall. I push my upper body up as far as I can, and then face-plant the bed the moment I reach for the hem of my T-shirt. I try again with the same re
** Poppy’s POV **My bedroom is no longer the calm space it was yesterday. I stand in the doorway, staring at the ridiculous sheet of wood covering what used to be my window. It blocks out all the daylight, leaving the room gloomy. There are cracks running across one wall and tiny pieces of glass s
** Bastian’s POV **“Vampires,” someone whispers.I don’t care to look who, because we are all thinking it.“Do you think it was a vampire?” Leo asks when the rogue doesn’t respond.The rogue gives a hollow laugh. “You say that like it’s just one.”My wolf surges forward, every protective instinct m
“Dehydrated. Severely underweight. Anaemic, probably.” He looks toward Paige. “I’ll have bloods done on all of them. Fluids for this one and probably him too.”He points toward the man sitting on the floor.“I’m fine,” the rogue mutters.“You’re shaking while sitting down.”“I’m just cold.”“It’s tw
** Leo’s POV **The short walk to the clinic is silent. Bastian walks beside me, his eyes sweeping over everything we pass. Remy had wanted him to come because of his ability to notice things others don’t. He wasn’t wrong, but it still pisses me off. Jake walks slightly ahead, pushing through the c
** Leo’s POV **Last night proved a few things. The first is that midnight DIY sucks. The second is that there is definitely more to Poppy’s parents’ accident than they’d always believed, and the third is that Poppy absolutely needs the Mountain Ridge twins. None of us had missed how quickly her ou
“Our light,” Remy adds.Her glow softens.Ronnie exhales shakily. “We need to be ready. If she truly is Eos reborn… then this is only the beginning.”Paige buries her face in my chest, and I hold her, knowing the world is shifting under our feet, and she is the axis.Poppy clears her throat gently,
Paige looks down at her hands, and I can see the tremor in her fingers.“They’re… tethered,” she whispers. “Like someone pulled them back from death with a thread that’s too thin. Like it’s fraying. Like it’s going to snap.”A growl rumbles in my chest before I can stop it. “Snap how?”“Snap, meanin
** Callen’s POV **The first thing I feel is the bond.It’s not the usual background hum, or the distracting warmth Paige always radiates when she’s close. This is something else… something sharp, bright, electrifying, like she’s a live wire pressed directly against the inside of my ribs.And then a
** Paige’s POV **Nina draws a slow breath, as if bracing herself. “There’s something else,” she says softly.The forest seems to freeze around us, and I feel everyone around me tense, waiting for the blow.Jake stands just behind Nina with a steadying hand on her shoulder. “What else?” he whispers.







