Shit, my head hurts. I’ve gotten too complacent living among wolves. Hunter me would never have let this happen. Then again, This all comes back to me not making sure Blaine was dead that night in Mexico. Stupid mistake, and now it’s going to cost me. Worse, it’s going to cost Dani. Oh fuck… Dani! I groaned, forcing my eyes to open as far as they could. While I was out because of the tranquilizer, someone decided to use me as a punching bag. Oh, look, I’m even hung from the ceiling like one. One guess who that was. “Look who’s finally waking up. I was starting to get bored beating you while you were unconscious. If you didn’t come around in the next ten minutes, I was going to check on your bloodsucker whore. Maybe see about getting some alone time with her. I mean, her standards must be low to have marked you.” Blaine scoffed. I could feel the anger bubbling over in my gut at his implication of even touching Daniela. “Blaine….” I huffed, keeping my voice a whisper. “I need to t

This cannot be happening. Toño is one twisted son of a bitch working this angle for decades. Why now, though? Why bring her son out now? Why not leverage him years ago? What makes now the right time to play this trump card? Is he that desperate? He must be. He’s had Agustín all this time. He even managed to keep his existence from Dani. He was waiting for the best moment to hit her with this. When the room filled with smoke and the door slammed open, I knew exactly what the source was. Odd that Agustín and more so Toño were taken by surprise. Have they never encountered a demon before? It seems they don’t venture very far from home if that’s the case. Even I took down a demon when I was fourteen. It was my rite of passage to be a full-fledged hunter. My mother chose my target. Of course, she’d chosen one of the most difficult supernatural beings to face. It nearly killed me, but I killed the demon before he managed to kill me. I remember how proud mom was when I returned with the

I don’t know what’s harder to believe. That Diana is here simply because she was Toño’s prisoner or Sameer supporting me had created a domino effect within the others from the guild down here. I’m going to go with the latter. It isn’t that I find Sameer believing me a hard pill to swallow. He’s been my best friend since we were in diapers. He is to me what Silvercloud is to Kurt. The person will always have your back, even if you lead them down stupid paths. “Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for the support. But other than Sameer, I find it hard to believe that you believe my words. We’ve all worked together as hunters, and while your dislike of me was never as apparent as Blaine’s, I still knew most of you didn’t like me because I was the Adio heir. So why believe me? Or is it more than you believe Sameer?” I questioned. “Khalid, my dear friend, have some more faith in your brethren than that. No one ever disliked you.” Sameer sighed, stepping closer. I arched an eyebrow because we kno

It’s getting hard to differentiate my emotions from Dani’s. We were both getting angry the most Diana talked. This was all some elaborate setup orchestrated by her? She’s just admitted to being the puppet master. Each time she opens her mouth, she’s digging a deeper grave. And when I think she’s going to hammer in that last nail, she says the most unexpected and absurd thing yet. I shook my head. “That’s not possible. No supernatural being could survive a photokinesis attack from an angel. They call it the Holy White Light for a reason. It cleanses a room of any supernatural being the light touches. Dani only survived because I shielded her with my human body and that table.” Dani struggled to find words, but her face hardened as she gripped Diana tightly. She finally found words, and they were laced with rage. “Agustín couldn’t have survived that blast. He was part of the ash pile with Toño. So stop telling me lies to save your neck. You orchestrated all this and thought you got t

I don’t know who handled the flight worse, Zory or the cats. I felt a little empathy for the cats, but what little sympathy I had seemed to go down every time Asim would reach out from his carrier to take a swing at Dani or when Jordan or Keith would leave the cockpit to get food or use the bathroom. I know he was trained to distrust and attack all supernatural beings from a young age, but he will need to learn to get along with certain ones. At least the kittens seemed better about it than him, but they are young, so we can train them to accept certain vampires and werewolves as allies. I know it can be done. As I know Asim can understand, not all supernatural beings are evil. He must have known Isis was a hybrid all this time but still loved and protected her. Especially after her cat passed away, he took on the guardian role for both of us. Sure she had her cat, but that didn’t stop me from finding Asim curled up in her lap or on her bed. So I have high hopes he can be retrai