Se connecterLucas’s brows lifted. “Did you notify the guards?”“I can’t,” I said.Lucas stared at me. I sighed. “Look, I can’t explain the whole thing.” I held his gaze. “I just need you to trust me on that part.”A moment passed, but finally, he nodded once.I pulled the fabric out of my pocket and held it out
Ellie’s POV“I’m fine,” I said. “Really.”“Ellie.” He hadn't let go of my arm yet. “You passed out. You were unconscious on the ground for almost two minutes.”Only two minutes? That came as a surprise, because it felt like I had completely relived my past life in that amount of time.“And now you’r
Ellie’s POVThe assassin was here.And the world tilted around me as my heart slammed too wildly against my ribs for my head to keep up.He was here. He was back. It was all happening again, just with slightly different details this time, and now…The last thing I saw before everything went dark was
“Thank you,” I finally managed. That was all.Dominic’s mother squeezed my hand once, then let go. “Speak of the devil,” she whispered, nodding her head toward a space a little ways down the field.Dominic was standing about thirty feet away, talking to one of the pack elders. He had his hands in hi
Ellie’s POVDominic’s mother was the last person I expected to step in. I especially didn’t expect her to stand up for me like this, out of nowhere, with absolutely no prompting whatsoever.I was pretty certain the woman hated my guts.Or so I had always assumed.Before Dominic and I were engaged, s
Ellie’s POVThe guests flooded in more quickly than I expected. At first, there was just a trickle, but then the line of cars along the roadway grew longer and longer, and the packs started coming out in droves, all clamoring to get a look.I was standing in front of the row of hay bales now, on my
Ellie POV A ball.I search my memory. Which one?So many were such wrecks, wastes of time and full of problems.Dominic’s mother doesn’t waste time, tapping the mic again fo rour attention.“The Ball,” she says, “Will kick start our process of finding our Dominic’s future Luna!”I feel this weird t
My heart hammers.“I just wanted you free,” I say, softer than I mean to.Her eyes narrow. “You wanted you free. You wanted to prove your parents don’t control you.”“That’s not true.”“Then what is?”I shouldn’t look at her mouth. I do anyway.“The truth,” I say low, “is you don’t make sense.”Her
Dominic POV The applause hasn’t even finished rippling through the room when my parents say Ellie’s name.I stand there on the edge of the stage, jaw tight, shoulders squared, every instinct in me bristling.I didn’t know what to feel.Relief it wasn’t some princess I didn’t know?Shock that my par
Ellie POV Dominic doesn’t say a word.He just takes my hand and turns, already moving, guiding me through the crowd like this is inevitable and not wildly out of no where.“Dominic?!” I half whisper, half yell, as the dance floor opens beneath our feet. “Dominic! Let go! What are you doing?”“We’re







