Jane’s POVWe fell into a routine of resentment as the days we were forced to spend at the Storm pack turned into weeks. Well – when I said we, I meant me. In truth, I’d never seen my sons so happy. Except maybe for when they’d broken Ed’s windows, but that wasn’t the sort of happiness that could bloom and grow into something lasting. This, though? This was.For the first time, they had a real home. There was always food on the table, other kids to play with, and a warm bed to fall into at night. I spent the summer reading to them, laughing with them, and I almost hated Hunter a little less when I saw how happy my boys were. Almost – but not quite.Alpha Colin, to keep up the pretence that he was my mate, had moved into the bedroom with us. We’d been given a new, larger one, that was somehow even grander than the first. My boys had their own, separate, adjoining room, which they loved. We’d never had this much space before.Colin had insisted he sleep on the floor. I’d offered to tak

Jane’s POVI patted Ava awkwardly on the back. I wanted to lift her into my arms and tell her everything would be all right, but I didn’t want Amy to get any more clues about my true identity. If I acted like I knew Ava at all, surely she’d guess there was more to me than met the eye?But Amy seemed so annoyed at her daughter that she barely spared me so much as a glance.“Oh, I’m so sorry, Luna Eremita. Come on, Ava,” Amy scolded her, tugging her off my leg and pushing her towards the classroom. “She’s a clinger, this one. Terrified of starting school, too.”I smiled tightly. “Well, that’s understandable. School can seem scary.”“Not for the daughter of an Alpha and Luna, it shouldn’t.” She arched a neat eyebrow at me and then nodded to my boys. “They don’t seem scared.”“I’m excited!” said Ares with a bright grin. “See, Ava? You don’t have anything to worry about. Now go inside.”Amy shoved Ava before grabbing my arm and towing me away. My belly swooped with nerves. Where was she t

Jane’s POVI went very, very still.It was impossible not to react to that, even though my mind was screaming at me to stay in character, to laugh it off, to mock this idiot Omega who’d let herself be tricked by the ever-so-clever Luna Amy. I’d been… hypnotised? How? By whom? When?The other question was much harder to consider, but it seemed even more important than those.Had I ever truly hated Hunter? Or had it all been because of Amy?I realised I hadn’t said anything, hadn’t even breathed, so I forced a too-loud laugh and touched Amy on the arm. “No, you didn’t!” I said, the sound shrill and desperate. I laughed more to try to cover it up.“I did.” She grinned, her eyes wicked. “It was so easy, too. She moved to Moonrise City after spending years hiding out in the human world with her two sons.” Something in her gaze flickered as she said it; my heart dropped. “You have two sons…” she said softly.I had to own it. I wrinkled my nose. “I’m glad that’s the only similarity I bear t

Jane’s POVOh my god.Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god–‘Girl, you’re giving me a headache!’ cried Ina. ‘Think something else, for the love of the Moon Goddess, pleeeease. I can’t take another second of this! So you had sex with Colin. So what? The guy is hot!‘It’s not just that,’ I replied, trying to get my jumbled, panicked thoughts in order. ‘It’s everything. It’s how drunk I got, how out of control I felt, what Amy told me, and, yeah, okay, the fact that I had sex with Colin.’I peered at him. Everything looked picturesque this morning – too picturesque, if you asked me. Golden sunlight fell across the bed in perfect slants, bringing out his freckles and making his hair shine a glossy auburn.I wanted to want him. It made sense for me to want him.But, in the cold light of day, I knew I didn’t. My heart still ached for Hunter, if I were being honest with myself. Know I knew why I’d despised him so intensely, it made me wonder if we’d had a chance at happiness tha

Hunter’s POVThe scene that unfolded before me would confuse me later, but as I raced towards Jane, driven mad by the scent of her blood, desperate to find her, to make her safe again, I didn’t take any notice of the strange group of people surrounding her.S was there, his face almost worried, just a tiny line marking the spot between his eyebrows, a cold cloth in his hand as he rested it on her forehead. He kept looking down at her like he wasn’t sure how he felt, so I felt no remorse in knocking him aside and stealing the cloth from his hand.I almost said her real name. Almost. But a crowd was gathering around the immediate circle surrounding Jane, so I managed to force out, “Luna Eremita,” instead of saying Jane. A woman I vaguely recognised stepped forward, but I took no notice of her in my panic. “Alpha Hunter,” she said, a little breathlessly. “She was coming towards me and she just collapsed.”The twin boys jumped up and down. “Alpha, we don’t know what’s wrong with her!” cr