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
“Stop.”“Yep. Appologizing. I didn’t know you were drugged till later. I’m sorry, okay? We were… in the heat of the moment.”I side eyed him, with a sigh, my nail tapping the mug.“Whatever,” I mumbled. At least we could just move on from this.“But,” He said. “At least we can move on from whatever
He leaned in.My blood went cold.He bared his teeth, sharp and white, and sank them into the side of her neck.The crowd exploded.Cheering. Whistling. A few people actually clapped.Vivian gasped and clutched his arm, playing it up for the audience, then giggled breathlessly as he pulled back, her
Ellie POV I had officially hit the point where words stopped being words and turned into worms.They squiggled across my notes, rearranged themselves into nonsense, and mocked me.I sat cross-legged on the academy lawn, surrounded by open textbooks, loose pages, ink-stained fingers, and the creepin
Dominic POV I didn’t hear a single word in class.My thumb kept brushing the gauze on my hand. Almost healed, but still stinging, while my brain replayed the same two images: Vivian crying on the ground… and Ellie walking away without even blinking.It twisted something in me.Because none of it ma







