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
…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
I finished my training with Maximus with no more issues, save for some longing looks from across the track. I wound up actually learning a lot and feeling myself gain some strength. It was so much so that I wound up asking Max if we could make our training regular. We agreed that my body would nee
We moved from the wall to Maximus’s bed in a half a second. My back was pressed against his comforter and my hands were back on his face. His lips were back on my chest, sucking welts into the space under my collar bones. My hips jolted up into him as a guttural moan escaped me. Max used his own h
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







