LOGINI wake up screaming.My body jerks upright in the bed, my breath tearing out of my lungs like glass shards while beads of sweat clings to my skin.The sheets are clenched in my hands and my eyes are wild and wide with fear. For a moment, the sight of the shadows falling across the cabin room strikes such terror into me that my heart thuds against my chest.One moment the room is dark, but my body is not. Magic erupts from me like it's trying to shield me.Golden light bursts across my arms, my chest and hands... The air around me thickens with magic and the walls to the cabin to tremble."Stop," I gasp, speaking to this freaky reaction like it can hear me.The bed only creaks violently beneath me as another wave of magic crashes out of me. The light from my hands starts to shine brighter, and whatever it touches, iron or wood, begins to splinter and crack."Fuck!"I throw myself off the bed just as a crack splits through the wooden frame. My knees hit the floor hard from the impact an
When night falls, sleep doesn't come easy to me.I stare at the ceiling of the small cabin room for hours on end, my heart pounding loudly enough for me to hear each beat it makes in my chest.Kai and Kael's words mix with those of the Alpha, and each keeps me up, turning over in a different way.The events they narrated happened six years ago. Six years before I ever met Merlin... before I ever knew of my witch bloodline or awakened.How... how is that possible? Would I really have been captured and killed that night when I tried to run? And now that I am awakened, fully aware of my witch bloodline and heritage... what's going to happen to me? Am I going to be hunted by this brotherhood of witch hunters?The questions are like a thorn in my side, and they keep sleep far away from me.When my exhaustion finally pulls me under, it drags me.I close my eyes for only a few moments, letting the darkness envelop me and take all those burning questions and worries away, but in an instant, m
As I leave, Alpha Kieran's words echo, slow and heavy, in my head.Six years ago, on the night of the fifth full moon... No, that can't be.My breath catches as I try to convince myself that the Moonveil warriors and their Alpha are mistaken, or maybe they're messing with me even though Seren's actions tell me they're not. At the border they questioned me, wanting to know if I was the kind of rogue that would pose a threat to their pack or not.Me stealing into the forests this morning was enough to make them suspect me of doing something strange, but Seren seemed particular about me being a rogue infiltrator. All her accusations pointed to that, and now I know that instead of just having it out for me, they actually have reasons to be wary about the types of people they let into their pack.Six years ago, on the last day of the fifth full moon... a witch hunter crossed from their pack into the Silvercrest pack. That day was the same day I tried to run.A sour feeling fills the back o
The Moonveil Alpha's eyebrows rise slightly and he directs his gaze to me."You concealed yourself?"Seren doesn't let me respond. She cuts in sharply, "She concealed herself from all three of us. Whatever she did was strong enough to hide herself completely, and that kind of... trickery? THAT KIND OF DECEPTION IS ENOUGH TO ENDANGER THE PACK.I suggest we kick her out."For the first time today my heart actually jolts from shock and fear.I haven't even spent a whole day here and she's trying to get me kicked out?When I look at Seren now, it's hard not to see someone who acts exactly like Tracy, even though she looks nothing like her. It seems behind that pretty face is a heart that's set to antagonize me. If I had known someone like her was here, I would have never made the Moonveil pack my next stop."It's not our culture to throw out people we granted refuge, Seren."The Alpha sounds totally calm but when he looks at me again there's a stony look in his eyes."What did you say you
Seren doesn't give me a response to that.She only turns around, walking away as she growls, "You're coming with us.No one's telling you anything, and that includes you two."The male warriors exchange twin looks of amusement, a slight rise in the corner of their lips as they watch her walk off. I sigh, and follow behind, trying and failing not to let my temper get the best of me.The walk back to the pack is silent yet tense.The large male warriors are silent on their feet, but they're not silent in the way they watch me. Their gazes burn into my neck, into the crook of my thighs, into the skin of my back as the coat rides low on my shoulders. I'm basically traipsing around in nothing but my underwear here, and they're making sure they take their darned precious time to look.I turn back sharply and meet burning green and ash eyes looking back hard at me. With a scowl I bite out, "See anything you like?"They both wear matching cocky grins as they growl back, "A lot."I do it befor
I get up from the floor slowly and put on my coat. I don't bother wrapping it tightly around myself like I did when I left the cottage this morning, I let it hang loosely, not bothering about the flashes of skin that show but instead focusing my intent on the barrier instead.Calling back my magic isn't as easy as breathing it out."The spell is done. The dome can fall."I chant the words softly under my breath, watching the colors and threads around me pulse with the command, unraveling as they come apart.The trees I used as anchors shake lightly, the leaves rustling as if blown by a soft wind as the barriers I placed come crashing down.Nothing changes for me. I still see the forest and the trees, but the barriers were never meant to make anyone else invisible from me.They were meant to keep me hidden from everyone else, and that's exactly what they did.Seren is the one who lunges at me first.I see the moment she turns and catches her first glimpse of me. The next moment her for
Karl's POV.Something is wrong.I pace the patch of grass a few feet away from the treeline. In the field ahead, Colin's car is parked idly, shaking ever so subtly from whatever he's doing in there with Lucy.A righteous kind of anger builds in my chest, the type that makes me want to walk over and
Karl's grip around my body tightens painfully as he demands in a low, dangerous voice, "Who are you?Are you a rogue? A spy? Who sent you to kill my mate and why are you here in the Silvercrest pack?"My lungs are being crushed against his rock of a body.When I wheeze out a response, the lack of a
I resist the urge to slam a punch into Colin's face as I pass by him at the doors to the packhouse.There's only one person I'm here for today, and that's the only person I care about seeing.I try to reach out on the matebond again, try to feel for her the way I've been trying to feel for her over
Destiny's pov. When I chose tonight to do this, I didn't check dates or think about what Valentine's Day might mean for anyone else.I only knew I didn't want this moment of my life swallowed up by pack politics and gossip. While sitting on my mother's couch after the council meeting, I realized t







