Hyacinth’s POV‘It’s just a fly in the oink, sweet thing,’ said Dolly, with all the conviction of someone who wholeheartedly believed they were actually right.‘A fly in the oink?’ I lifted my head, barely able to muster up a laugh. ‘Like, the sound a pig makes?’‘Exactly! Why would a fly want to go into a pig’s nose? That poor pig.’ She sighed dramatically. ‘It must just ruin his day.’In a roundabout way, I supposed Dolly was right. This definitely was ruining my day. Not that they’d be all that great since I’d left Night Wind, anyway.I couldn’t take a single step forward. Not one. I tried, and tried again, and again – but nada. Nope. Nothing. It was like there was a wall of thick air ahead of me, following the curve of our territory line. But why?And how?I shook off the questions I wouldn’t be able to answer on my own and started pondering one I might have a chance at.What was I going to do now?‘You could turn back,’ Dolly suggested, her voice a little bit strained and a whol

Rhiannon’s POVThere was a prickling feeling nudging at the nape of my neck. I twisted around; Tiger stiffened as I took control of her body, giving me the leeway I needed to investigate my Bad Feeling.It was too easy for me to do. She was still weary, still tiring too fast for me to feel entirely confident that she – and I – were back to normal. The prickling grew, eclipsing my worries about my wolf in an instant. We were only walking, but I stopped, narrowing my eyes at the barren, snow-dusted trees behind us. The skeletons of bushes gave some cover, but not enough to hide someone fully. I couldn’t see anyone – so why did I feel so convinced that we were being followed?Caleb slowed, coming to a halt beside me. ‘Are you all right?’‘Do you feel like there’s someone else here?’He paused; his hackles rose. ‘Yes.’I’d expected him to brush me off, to tell me I was letting my worry for my sister make me suspicious of everything. I’d half thought that myself. It would make sense; sinc

Caleb’s POVThe ground had frozen over when we got back to Night Wind. It was like stepping onto an ice rink and being unable to hop back onto the solid ground beside it. There were no barriers to grab and no way to get off it. And it was everywhere. It glittered in the dying sunlight, shining gold and scoring a path across the ice that pointed straight to the pack house. It didn’t even look slightly tempted to melt, despite the golden hour sun hitting it.It was just another problem to add to my increasingly long list.My head was scrambled. Between the messy bundle of emotions keeping Rhi at arm’s length and the fact that my so-called allies, Moon Chasm, who, by the way, were the literal parents of my Luna, were going to attack, kill me, and claim my land as their own, I was barely able to function.Let alone deal with the crowd of people that surrounded me as soon as I set foot back on my pack lands.“Alpha!”“Alpha!”“Alpha Caleb!”“Come quick!”Harley was in the crowd, pulling a

Caleb’s POVI kicked off my shoes. My bare toes dug into the thick rug on the floor; its chill bit into my soles, the fire just starting to take in the hearth and not yet warm enough to fill the room with its heat.Rhiannon’s room was all her. Her scent was everywhere, pine needles and the air before a storm, perfumed with lime and basil. It clung to her checked bedding, to her curtains, to her. I inhaled deeply.She sat on the bed, looking up at me as she tugged off her boots, keeping her eyes on mine as she curled her socked feet under her and rested her hands in her lap. She looked innocent and inviting in equal measure; her breasts pressed together where she was leaning forward, their curves calling to me.‘So poetic,’ laughed Knight. ‘And all for breasts.’‘Do breasts not deserve to have poetry written about them?’‘They don’t do anything for me. A nice tail, however, or a good pair of ears…’My reply to him was eclipsed by her. She shifted back, slowly sliding her leggings down

Kieran’s POVBeing so close to Ames again was like the kind of agony the poets described. It was the sort of agony that haunted the midnight hours, the kind that cleaved souls in two.Goddess, it was worse than being apart from her. I’d thought nothing could come close to how I’d felt on my arduous journey back to Night Wind, not ever knowing if I was too late, not knowing if I’d find her, not knowing how she’d react if I did. My imagination ran me ragged, picturing her smiling and running into my arms – and being able to – one moment, only for that image to be shattered the next by visions of her sneering at me and sidling closer to Alpha Caleb.‘You’re just a barrel of laughs, aren’t you?’ teased Bo. ‘I still think you should’ve gone with my last plan to win her back–’‘Oh, my goddess, absolutely not.’ I rolled my eyes at him. ‘Bo, buddy, you wanted to find a railway track – which, might I add, don’t even exist anywhere near us; they’re a human thing – then get someone to tie Ames t