AURORAIt wasn’t until noon before I opened my eyes to the new day and dragged myself to the shower. I had never been so hung over.‘Never do that again! Your headaches aren’t limited to only you, you know!’Listening to Evolet’s whining was the last thing I needed this morning so once I was out of the shower, I dropped on the seat facing my dressing mirror and saw a pill on a sheet of paper, with a covered glass of water beside it.‘For the headaches’… Lizra’s handwriting.I took the pill, working my hands through my towel-dried hair as I stared at myself in the mirror. It was no surprise that I was a mess but… there was this glow about me. A purplish glow and my mark looked brighter this morning.Still smiling, I dressed up. Lessons would probably be postponed today and since I had nothing better to do, I wanted to see someone that had been avoiding me since our sword fight.‘You want to go to HIM? Him? Are you kidding

AURORA“Flash question, you must answer in not more than five seconds.”I took a deep breath, bracing myself for the next thing Lizra was preparing to fire at me.It was a new day and I spent yesterday, after our altercation…Evolet coughed. I ignored.…doing everything possible to not think about him. I tried to hammer answers from the Beta but of course, he told me nothing. I also tried tricking the Gamma but he caught my lie and stuck his tongue at my face.I asked Lizra straight up if she knew anything but she either changed the topic or repeated the same words, ‘I know nothing’ which was suspicious enough.During a walk down the hall, I noticed a large wooden door with carvings and designs of book-related images but heard hushed voices inside. No… it was one person, whispering to himself and seeming to pace around the room like a madman. I was certain the doors belonged to the library and before I could even step cl

KATRINAIt took some minutes to get Kane to sit with the rest of us and we had to place him at the farthest seat from Alpha Adrian—us actually. Alpha Hades threw glances from his side to ours and I suddenly understood how he helped us with information about Lilith.It still didn’t explain how the Alpha of Silverclaw knew. I wanted nothing more than for my daughter to be here, safe…‘Who says she isn’t safe with Adrian? If you ask me, I think she’s better off with him.’‘Take that back, Mel!’‘What? I’m saying the truth, Dash was kidnapped in this very packhouse. Do you think…’“I have a theory and recently just discussed it with my fellow Zeta here in your presence, before our hosts arrived,” the Zeta of Silverclaw said as Charlie joined him on his feet.Kane scoffed at the word ‘hosts’ and I side-eyed him to behave himself.Alpha Adrian had gotten his sunglasses on and it was even more disturbing to not know wh

AURORAA muscular hand held me down and the other pulled what was still in my hand away. The air in my lungs emptied when he growled and the anger in his aura enclosed me in fear. It wasn’t only in his raging aura that I detected arousal, I felt it behind me too.“Adrian…”His growl got louder and it had the opposite effect of terror on me. “Did. You. Read. It?”Adrian’s hard, livid, but steady voice made me realize I had crossed the line.‘You didn’t realize that before?!’“I…”“DID YOU READ IT?!”I gasped when his hold on my waist got so tight that I could feel his dangerous fingers through my flesh. I could sense them directly on my bones. “Yes but…”“How. Many. Did. You. Read?”My chest tightened. “Just one or two but…”“LIAR!”“I read a lot, okay! You’re hurting me!”Snarling, he freed his hold on my waist and threw the diary away, turning me to him. My knees grew wea

KATRINAHilda stayed quiet after I had updated her on everything we knew about this demon. It was just right I told her, at least it’d take her mind off constantly worrying about her brother. I knew how she felt, I knew how Kane felt, and I knew how everyone felt because the packhouse was impacted by all our shared feelings.The brightness was gone, even when eye-blinding light was lit everywhere. There were no more gossiping and excited chirps from the maids. No one had been able to keep a smile on for too long and Kane was avoiding the packhouse as much as he could.Everyone was trying to deal with my son’s disappearance and it took me the whole of yesterday night to eventually put myself together, piece by piece. It hurt more because his memories were still fresh in my head and sometimes, when my mind had wandered so far away that I didn’t even know where I was, I would have forgotten he wasn’t here. I would’ve even asked for him, traumatizing everyone all over again, but sulking w