Prologue Once upon a time, there were three kinds of people: male, descended from the sun; female, descended from the earth; and hermaphrodite, with both male and female parts, descended from the moon. These early people were completely round, each with four arms and four legs, two faces on opposite sides of a head with four ears.  They were wild and unruly and threatened to scale the heavens. So Zeus, the father of the gods, cut each one of them in half and scattered them, separating the souls who belonged together. After that fateful day, people searched all over the world for their other half. When they finally found it, they wrapped themselves around it very tightly a

I pace my room, bored and frustrated. My father has confined me to border control since Tegwen's murder since he feels I'm unstable, just because I want to find whoever did it and rip them to shreds. "Cain." His voice seeps around my head like black tar filling my brain. "My office." This isn't going to be good for me, he's only summoned me like this a handful of times since she was killed. The first was to tell me he was withholding the Alphaship from me after I may have gone on a little tiny angry rampage, but that was after seeing a girl wearing Tegwen's favourite boots and finding out he'd ordered her parents to give her stuff to the less fortunate members of our pack. But I think, since I'm her mate, retrieving what was hers so I could decide what to do with it, is perfectly justifiable and if a few houses were destroyed in the process, well that's on him since he should have known I'd never allow anyone to touch her things. Her parents have left her room alone ever since and

I was summoned to my father's office early this morning to meet with a visiting Alpha from a nearby pack. He's given me the lecture about being polite and respectful, as if I'm five years old again and likely to embarrass him by saying something stupid. A knock comes at the door, and Gene bows to my father before showing in a man around my father's age and a blonde girl who shares his almost translucent blue eyes. "Get out, now." Kade, my wolf growls angrily in my head when the girl smiles shyly at me.  I've got a terrible feeling about this and am about to get up when my father's hand clamps down on my arm. "Sit down boy." His voice bellows in my mind, clearly feeling conf

"Flame, move your ass, my dead grandma could be up here faster than you." I turn around from the top of the wooden wall and grin at her. Her beautiful green eyes twinkle as I reach down to help her up.Never one to be beaten, she jumps at a rope just off to one side and swings herself up and over, tapping my head as she sails past me before landing on the other side."Come on, don't want to get beaten by a little girl, do you?" She cackles as she sprints away to the next obstacle and I jump down, landing with a grunt as I push myself to chase after her.At seventeen, I've grown bulky from endless training, whereas Flame is muscular and lean, making her faster than me initially, but my stamina is greater and it doesn't take me

Never did I ever even consider that she left of her own free will. Never did I think that she would have started a life somewhere else, without me. This is not the girl I grew up with! The girl that I love would never have left me! "Aaah." I scream, tossing the desk across the room with one hand. It slams into the wall and cracks, falling on the floor in a broken mess of splintered wood.Kade has retreated into the furthest corner of my mind since I left the scene without Flame. Without even speaking to her or checking she was ok, he wanted to bring her here and make up for the time we've missed. He's not considering the fact that not only has she been alive this entire time, but that she's been happily living somewhere else, making new friends and doing whatever with whoever, wh