LOGINValentin’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
“The fuck are you doing?” Thorne grunted at Maximus. Max jammed his elbow into Thorne’s thigh. Thorne released his grip on Maximus’s shirt with a grunt. Max immediately stood up and glared down at then other man. “The drill as we were told to do,” Maximus snapped. “You’re lucky you’re this far
The bananas hit the spot on the way to Basics that morning. When we arrived at Basics, bananas had been eaten. Just as Maximus mentioned the night before, Coach had paired us up. Just as he’d promised me, we’d been paired together. Loren bumped shoulders with me as I started to walk off to where 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
I fell asleep hidden by the pines of the forest. I woke as the sun was starting to rise in the distance. I sniffled slightly and rubbed my eyes then gasped when I saw someone in front of me. I scrambled to sit up and press my back to the tree I’d slumped under. My eyes took a second to adjust then







