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
“Oh,” I breathed. I had no clue how much he knew about me. Did he know who I was? Who my mother was? Was this about to be the way my secret got out? “No,” he shook his head. His gaze snapped from mine. “No, no, this isn’t how it was supposed to be.” “Thorne—” I reached for him. He stepped back o
The day of Mateball, there was a knock at my door at eight in the morning. Loren was dead asleep in her bed. The knock woke me up slightly but I figured I was imagining things. It wasn’t until the second, louder knock that my eyes opened. I begrudgingly slunk out of bed and opened the door. I had to
The gym was filled with people. They were boo-ing me as I made my way to the sparring mats. Most of them had been cleared away from the area, save for one. It was shiny as if someone had just polished it. Standing smack in the middle was none other than Kairos. I walked towards him, chin off my
“Are we starting or not?” “We?” I said as Loren squeaked out the same word. She had gone deadly still. “We? Nosotros? Nous?” Pietha drawled. “What other language would you like me to speak it in?” “So, you’re doing hair and make up for both of us?” I said, slowly as I wrapped my hand around Lo







