Mag-log inEllie’s POVDominic shifted back to human form and stood there for a moment, chest heaving, just staring at me. His face was pale, drained of all color save for the red blood staining his skin. He looked like he’d bee nthrough hell. I supposed I looked much the same.“Ellie,” he said in a raw voice.
Ellie’s POVI ran until my lungs were on fire and my legs felt like they were about to give out.The invisibility had worn off about halfway through my escape, leaving me exposed and more vulnerable than I would have liked. I tried eating some more petals of the Ghost’s Whisper, but they didn’t work
Vivian’s POVI’d been pacing my room for hours, back and forth across the carpet until I was sure I’d worn a path into it. The clock on the wall read three in the morning, and there was still no sign of Dominic or his men.Or Ellie, for that matter.I stopped at the window and looked out over the gr
Dominic’s POVWe had been following the forest path along the ridgeline of the gorge for hours. We hadn’t slept, hadn’t stopped to rest, not even when the sun came up and went back down.“Alpha,” my Delta said, coming up beside me and putting his hand on my shoulder, “the men are exhausted. We shoul
Ellie’s POVI plucked the Ghost’s Whisper carefully from the base of the tree and tucked it into the waistband of my pants, hidden beneath the tunic. My bodyguard hadn’t seen it. He was too busy kicking at a log, bored out of his mind.“Got what you need?” he asked as I stood, walking over to him.“
Tonight. That didn’t feel like nearly enough time, but I’d been thinking all night, and I had come up with some ideas.I stood and faced him. “There’s something I need first.”He raised an eyebrow. “What’s that?”“Herbs,” I said. “Special ones. To ensure that the… union is successful. That I conceiv
“I’m fine, Viv. Just got a lot going on.”A lie. A terrible one.Because his gaze drifted again, drawn like a magnet to Ellie’s bright laugh across the courtyard.Heat crawled up my throat, and I had to bite down to keep it from spilling out. I wasn’t desperate. I refused to be desperate. Dominic h
Ellie POV The dummy’s eyes flickered. It was dying.Gasps echoed. And a few people snickered.“Told you. She wouldn’t last.”“Some ‘prodigy,’ huh? She really is just some wanna be luna with a mask.”But instead of panicking, something in me was turning gears.I hadn’t messed up.My stitching was cl
Vivian POVDominic and I sat together at one of the long benches outside the training hall, sunlight flickering through the trees overhead, scattering gold across his hair like the world was doing me a personal favor. Normally, this was our spot. Where he’d sit with his friends flanking him, all of
Ellie POV The library was so quiet I could hear my own pulse.I snapped my book shut and exhaled, rubbing the bridge of my nose. My brain felt like it had been wrung out, but at least I’d managed to cram another hour of studying in before the Healer Academy’s entrance exam.One more week.One more







