ログインZora’s POVAs the evening wore on, my eyelids drooped, but I couldn’t find sleep even when I tried. I was close to the fire, resting on furs, and thanks to Neo, I had food in my belly. But, even as comfortable as I should have been, I found myself shivering with cold.Though the fire at my front was
Valentin’s POVWith tidings as ill as they were, Victoria and Valentin couldn’t talk about things openly, so they went to Valentin’s office, which he had left warded and protected. There, they would not be overheard.There, Valentin told Victoria all that occurred, with some exception for privacy’s
Max’s POVMax hadn’t made it far from his initial starting point before he had to stop and try to grab hold of the mating bond again. Closing his eyes, with his hand over his heart, he meditated, trying to manifest the bond in his mind’s eye as a rope, a tether, guiding his heart to Zora.With progr
“I’m not doing that. I’m going to follow the bond.”“You can still feel it?” Thorne asked him. “Enough to follow it?”Max pressed his hand to his chest. “I think so.”“She’s nowhere close to us,” Valentin said. “If you go blindly, it could take you days if not weeks to find her.”“Then I had better
Valentin’s POVValentin tried to remain calm as Max, Kairos, and Thorne engaged in varying levels of panic, but it was difficult. His resolve was being tested by the moment.One minute Zora had been here with them, and in the next she had simply vanished. What should have only been a small exercise
“Neo…” I whispered.He just kept staring back. His gaze was probing, like he could see down inside of me, straight to the soul he might have held a piece of. Could he feel this too?I opened my mouth, about to ask –The sky opened first, and suddenly rain fell. The tree branches and leaves blocked s
“So how I do I find one of these magical ‘fated’ mates?” I rolled my eyes. This was a crock of horse shit.“There’s several signs,” Victoria went on. “Sometimes it’s an intense draw to someone. Sometimes a fated mate has the ability to soothe one another that other do not. Then, I’ve heard tales of
“How long does the hunt last?” I said.“Until they catch you,” Loren replied. “Last year’s hunt was long. Four days, I think?”I rubbed my eyes and threw my body back in my bed. This was going to suck. I turned back to Loren and found she had done the same. She gave me a sad smile.“It wouldn’t be s
Leave it to Victoria to find the absolute worst men possible. Though it did align with how she treated me my entire life.Exactly, she never loved you, the voice in my head said.Get fucked, I threw back at her.Then I felt a force wrapped around my bicep. I snapped out of my internal monologue and
“Miss Smith,” the elder woman said. “Thank you for joining us.”Heat flared in my face. “Sorry,”Someone snorted next to me. I felt a shoulder brush against mine than push to the middle of the circle to stand next to the woman.It was no surprise to me that it was Kairos. When he finally came to sta







