ログイン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
Zora’s POVBeyond the now obliterated doors of the tomb was a stone staircase that led directly up out of the dark and to the outdoors. And it really was the outdoors. As we ascended the stairs, Neo and I found ourselves in the middle of a field.Rocks were scattered here and there among the tall gr
I thoughts about that for the rest of the day. When I’d first come to this world, my mother had put four men in front of me and asked me to marry one. Did she know that I would be potentially fated to all of them? Something about it was fishy but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Plus, there was no
“Mr. Wolfham,” Lunerly said. He sounded completely unphased. My heart, however, was beating out of my chest. “Thank you for coming to my office amidst afternoon classes.”“I had a break,” Maximus said. He pushed off the wall. “What was this about a princess?”“Yes, I just spoke to the queen,” Lunerl
“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
…but death did not come.Instead, I felt the full weight of a man on top of me. My arms were pinned down besides my head. I felt the hips of someone move under me. I looked up and was met with Kairo’s piercing gaze. I started to struggle immediately.“Clever girl,” Kairos tutted. He was unphased by







