LOGINAnnalisa Greenwood spent four years being invisible in her own marriage. She was the orphan girl her Alpha husband never wanted, the Luna he tolerated, the wife he looked through rather than at. When she fell pregnant with his child, he called her a liar. When she lay bleeding on the floor of his estate, he walked away. So she disappeared. Three years later, she has built something from the wreckage — a career, a home, a life. And a son with his father's eyes and a heart that has fought to beat since the day it was formed. But the world has a way of closing distances that were never meant to stay open. A medical crisis spreading across the major pack territories has only one solution, and Annalisa is the one who found it. The summit that could save hundreds of pregnancies requires one thing she has spent three years avoiding. A room with Antonio Greenwood in it. He has been searching for her since the night he came home and found her gone. He has been living in the ruin of what he did and what he failed to understand until it was too late. He does not yet know about the boy with amber eyes who builds puzzles and argues about wolf genetics and has a heart that needs his father's presence to fully heal. Some debts cannot be paid with an apology. Some doors, once closed, open onto something entirely different on the other side.
View MoreChapter 86DOMINICThe flight to Crestholm took three hours.I used the first hour to go through the briefing documents for the bilateral meeting, the framework drafts and the outstanding points that had not been resolved in the previous session and would need to be resolved in this one. The second hour I spent on the territory updates Rhys had sent through before takeoff, a thorough account of the first six hours of my absence that I had not asked for and was glad to have.Everything was stable.The perimeter patrols were running on the expanded schedule. Eli had eaten lunch without incident and had spent the afternoon campaigning Cora for something that Rhys described only as the ongoing request, which I understood to mean the dog. Annalisa was in the workspace going through the supply chain documentation, which Rhys reported with the particular dryness of someone who had expected nothing less.I read the update twice and put the tablet down.The third hour I spent looking at the cl
Chapter 85DOMINIC "It is a reason for me to be concerned," I said."Then be concerned from Crestholm," she said. "And call me. And I will tell you that everything is fine.""And if everything is not fine.""Then I will tell you that too and you will come back," she said. Simply. As though it were obvious.I looked at her for a moment."Rhys is good," I said. It was not a question."Rhys is excellent," she said. "You chose him yourself.""I chose him for the territory," I said. "Not for—""He is staying here for both," she said. "Territory oversight and whatever else needs oversight. He knows."I added the last document to the case and closed it.Eli found us twenty minutes later.He came into the room with the particular energy of someone who had heard something and had been sitting with it long enough to have developed feelings about it and was now ready to deliver those feelings in person.He looked at the packed case on the floor.Then he looked at me."Cora said you were going s
Chapter 84DOMINICI did not want to leave.That was the simple truth of it and I was not going to dress it up into something more complicated than it was. I had been aware of the meeting in Crestholm for three weeks, had known it was coming and had been quietly hoping that the circumstances around it would shift enough by the time it arrived to give me a reasonable basis for sending a representative instead of going myself.They had not shifted.If anything they had become more complicated, which was the direction things in Annalisa's life had been moving for the past month with a consistency that I found professionally impressive and personally exhausting."You have to go," Annalisa said.She was folding one of my shirts with the focused efficiency she brought to practical tasks, the same efficiency she brought to everything, and she did not look up when she said it."I know I have to go," I said."Then stop standing there looking like you're calculating whether you can get out of i
Chapter 83ANTONIOSilas waited until Annalisa's footsteps had faded before he said anything.He was that kind of man. The kind who understood that the shape of a room changed after someone left it and that waiting for the new shape to settle before speaking was not patience for its own sake but a practical choice."Complicated evening," Silas said."Yes," I said."She holds herself well," he said. Not a compliment exactly. More like a technical observation, the assessment of someone who watched people for professional reasons and noted what he saw without attaching sentiment to it."She always did," I said.Silas looked at me with the particular quality he had, the look that did not push but did not miss anything either."You wanted to speak privately," I said. "What about."He moved to the window and stood there for a moment looking out at the dark before he turned back."Marcus," he said.I had expected several things. Marcus had not been one of them."What about him," I said."He
Chapter 60CHRISTIANAI had been preparing for this since the morning after I used the vial.That was the part none of them had accounted for. They had built their documentation carefully, I did not doubt that, Annalisa was a precise woman who always did everything in increments making sure that s
Chapter 58ANNALISAWe pulled through the gates of the Vael estate at half past two in the afternoon.I saw Eli before the car had fully stopped.He was in Cora's arms on the front steps, which meant he had been watching for the car long enough that Cora had brought him outside to wait, and when th
Chapter 17 ANTONIO I could not let it end like that. The door had closed in my face and I had stood there in the corridor for a full minute, maybe longer, just staring at the closed door like it was going to give me something. Like if I stayed still long enough the conversation would rewind and I
Chapter 6 ANTONIO Annalisa’s constant drama was wearing my patience thin.Christiana spent the evening trying to calm me down, though I could see the exhaustion in her pale face. She finally fell asleep a little past nine. I sat in the chair beside her bed until her breathing evened out. I sto
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