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
Maximus walked up the stairs of his house and stopped in front of Kairos’s door. He contemplating knocking but the music inside was so loud, there was no way Kairos could hear him. He barged into the room. Kairos was bench pressing on his bench in the back corner. Three, hundred pound weights were
I let me jaw fall slack. How did he figured it out? Instead of allowing me to say anything, Valentin stepped in front of me. He narrowed his eyes at Maximus. “Don’t be absurd, Wolfham,” he said, sternly. “Miss Smith is without a wolf. I am only assisting her in attempting to coax it out.” He loo
Valentin seemed to sense my internal spiral. He frowned at me. I couldn’t tell if he was upset or not. “Have you had this feeling with someone?” he asked. I opened and closed my mouth, unsure of what to say. “No,” I decided on. I spit it out quickly and cringed at how fast I said it. Valentin lo
The days flew by at Alpha Academy. After that training session with Valentin, he continued to be cold towards me. He avoided touching at all costs, even going so far as to wear thick long sleeves and pants. Though I could still tell, through every grit of his teeth as he blocked me or every flinch







