LOGINJasmine's POVI watched Rowan pull Iris closer to him and adjust the blanket over her with one arm. Iris tipped her head back and said something that made him almost smile, and I sat on a sofa opposite them and felt something warm settle in my chest.He had found it.After everything. After Raven, a
Iris’s POVAbout twenty minutes later, Jasmine appeared in the doorway.She looked different from the last time I had properly seen her. The distant, distracted look that she had had for weeks was still there, but it was quieter now. Like she had come to some kind of decision and it had given her a
Iris’s POVRowan was silent for a moment. Then he said, "She's dead."My eyes widened slightly at that.I waited to feel something. Maybe guilt, or sadness, or at least something that would make me feel like a decent person.But what I felt was intense relief. And I didn't feel bad for it."The inju
Iris's POVThe first thing I saw was the incubator.It was beside my bed. It was close and low enough that I could see her clearly without any effort. She was small, wrapped in a pink blanket with only her face showing.My throat tightened.She was beautiful.I don't know how to fully explain what l
Iris’s POVThe darkness didn't feel empty.It felt warm, soft, and safe. There was no pain here. No fear. No yelling.Then light came.It was bright and gentle.I was standing in a room that looked familiar in a way that made my chest tighten.Evie's room.I knew it immediately. The same pink walls.
Iris’s POVRowan was standing over her, breathing heavily, still half shifted, his hands were dark with her blood. Chloe was on the floor and she was not moving. She was alive. I could hear her shallow breathing from across the room. But I almost didn’t recognise her. Her face was swollen. She was f
Eric's POVI took a deep breath, slammed my foot back on the gas, and kept driving. I didn’t know what the hell Marcus found, but it had to be something, for my wolf to react.I reached the pack’s border in under seven minutes. Marcus’s car was already parked at the side. I parked, and stepped out o
Eric's POVThe drive back was torture.I had my hands on the steering wheel, my eyes were on the road, but my mind wasn’t here.All I could see was the wide pool of dark dried blood. The rogues, mangled and torn. Her scent.It played over and over again like a cursed video that I couldn’t shut off.
Iris’s POVThe smile slipped off my face the second the new woman entered.My grip tightened slightly on the blanket.She was tall. She was maybe a few years older than me, with long blonde hair. She had sharp gray eyes that reminded me too much of Zara because of the same barely-hidden contempt in
Eric’s POVI dropped to my knees, brushing dirt away with my bare hands frantically.My throat tightened as I prayed within myself. Please let it be a rock. Just a large flat rock.But I already knew it wasn’t.The more I cleared the soil, the more the truth stared back at me. It wasn’t a rock, but







