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
The chanting grew louder. And then I felt it again.That cold presence pushing against my mind.But this time, it was stronger and more forceful.It wasn’t gentle. It was battering against my mental barriers like a hammer.“No!” I yelled. “No, get out. Get out!”I fought against it with everything I
Iris's POVHours passed in that underground room.Or maybe it was days. I couldn’t tell anymore. There were no windows, no clocks, nothing to mark the passage of time except those torches that never seemed to burn out.It was driving me insane.The isolation was overwhelming. The only sounds were my
Rowan’s POVI stopped the car about five miles away from Maximus’s territory. The last thing we needed was to alert his patrol guards to our arrival.We gathered around the front of the vehicle as I pulled out a map of the region.“Maximus’s pack house is about ten miles northeast from here,” I expl
Fresh tears spilled down my cheeks.Soon, Raven would be in control of this body. And I would be gone or maybe trapped somewhere inside my own mind?Maximus had said my consciousness would be “suppressed” and pushed into the background.Did that mean I would still be aware? Would I be able to see an







