LOGINZora’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
Kairos Kairos watched as Thorne stayed back after Basics, lingering close enough to the girl that it raised his attention. He continued to watch after everyone had gone off into the locker room, arms crossed and eyebrow raised. He didn’t understand what the appeal was to the girl. She was pathet
Zora The days that followed the awakening of my wolf, I felt a lot like a baby deer walking for the first time. Everything was so much more sensitive. My feet could feel every rock and pebble under them, even in my thick running shoes. Smells were so much more prominent, so much so that I gagged m
He watched Zora’s lips move but heard nothing. He blinked twice to see she’d started waving at him, erratically. “Hello?!” she called, jutting her chin out towards him. “Thank you!?” Maximus grunted in reply and looked at Loren. She smiled softly at him. “We could’ve handled them,” the pixie-l
When I woke up, it was dark out. I cursed myself for missing a whole day of classes for a temper tantrum and tried to stand up. My legs felt wobbly under me. I followed the light from campus to get me out of the forest and wound up in front of my dorm building. I winced as I walked up the steps an







