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
Valentin Valentin felt his eyes slowly closing as he struggled to focus. Then someone slammed something on his desk. He snapped his eyes open to be face-to-face with his fiancée and future bride. She was glaring down at him with her golden eyes. Her long black hair was swishing around by her waist
The few days after my attack were somber, as expected. The Monday after, I went to breakfast and was the topic of discussion yet again. Though, this time, everyone seemed to be eyeing me with pained looks instead of menacing glares. I swallowed thickly especially when Loren rubbed my back reassuri
The walk to Valentin’s office was longer and quieter than it’d been before. All of campus seemed to be eerily quiet, as if the entire school was ashamed of last night’s actions. There were a few stragglers out in the early morning, walking home from whatever or wherever they’d ended up. They looked
The blurred voices around me stab through the darkness. At first, they’re muffled and I can only make out a few words around garbled yelling. I tried to protest. I didn’t trust any of those people in that house. I tried to pull out of whoever’s grasp I was in. My hands were covered and set back in m







