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Working that day had been torture. Everett was all I could think about. Even when I tried to focus on the swarm of customers in my store, or taking inventory of our stock room, he kept creeping back into my mind. Images of Everett with his sleeves rolled up, his muscular arms and his golden-brown chest hair poking out above his open collar, kept me eager to see him later that night. Every time he moved toward me, I knew it was because he was succumbing to inner desires he usually resisted. I saw the twitches in his fingers, and how his eyes flickered over my body, and I wanted to indulge him. The less angry I was with him, the harder it was to defend myself against his advances.I was the only one working the last three hours at the store. Once I tidied the displays and closed up, I lingered in the strip mall washroom, retying my hair and fixing my makeup. Usually I left the store looking like a disaster, but tonight, for the first time in a long time, I wanted to impress somebody.Ev

There was so much running through my mind that night, falling asleep had been a mercy. Even asleep, my thoughts were riddled with glimpses of red hair and flashes of fire.Being with Aislin afflicted me with feelings I hadn’t expected. It was like all the loneliness I’d felt was suddenly soothed when she let me get close to her, but the immense comfort was too good to be true—I feared leaping headfirst into something that would disappoint me in the end. It was the same distrust that kept me from forming bonds with anyone, expecting that they would ultimately fail to meet my high standards and leave me feeling like a fool. Aislin was… amazing, to be honest. She was attractive and her body moved in all the right ways around me. Her smile and laughter made me feel stronger. My mind and heart ached to fall in love with her, but… was I merely being blinded by the fated mate bond?I couldn’t bring myself to kiss her, as much as I wanted to, or else I would have fallen more deeply for her th

Running through the forest, I expected to see the titanic body of Everett March barreling behind me any moment. I’d hear his feet pounding the earth, his bulk breaking through the bushes, and I’d feel his eyes on the back of my head like vicious arrows. But to my relief, the entire run from Eastpeak back to Grandbay, I was alone.Some part of me hoped that Everett would have woken shortly after I left and hunted me down. Then he could have confessed to my face that he’d been lying to me and using me, and I could have given him a piece of my mind about it. But it was probably better that never happened, or I might have broken down into an emotional mess, and I didn’t want to give Everett any more chances to get close to me.Clouds spanning the sky made the night darker than usual. Raindrops trickled sparsely through the forest canopy, hitting leaves and shrouding my journey in a persistent low shudder of noise. I descended Everett’s mountain and shot westward, sticking close to the sou

My lips pursed as I glanced away.“Yeah.”Eventually it would have been, anyway. I’d been living with this shit for over a week now, and it didn’t make my life any better, even if being a nuisance to Everett was marginally satisfying.“Okay. Sit beside me,” she offered.I settled beside her and gravity tugged me closer to her than I would have liked. The aura around her was supernaturally disarming, as I imagined it was for all unicorns. That was one of the many special qualities of the rarest breed of shifter. Perhaps why they were so highly coveted among certain groups. Imagine how nice it would be to employ a unicorn to keep you company at all times, granting you inner peace and attentive healing whenever you felt even the slightest bit under the weather. Many unicorns had been enslaved for their restorative properties. Even now, my misgivings toward Muriel were pacified beyond rational reason. I fidgeted with my hands and looked down at the light pink carpet under my feet.Muriel

I couldn’t rest until I heard back from Taylor. All night, I migrated around my house looking for something to do. In my office, I processed paperwork that I had set aside in favor of doting on Aislin the day before, and then I listened to the audio recordings from Hexen Manor, but found nothing that would indicate when Dalesbloom intended to attack. There was suddenly radio silence within the parlor where the bug was planted.Immediately disturbed, I made a beeline for the smell, ignoring the dense presence of dragons around us. I would plunge into the pits of Hell to retrieve Taylor if I had to. My feet moved swiftly through the grass, dew clinging to my fur, but I felt nothing except my heart slamming in my ribcage. In the back of my mind, I was grateful Aislin had gotten her lungs healed, because I was already struggling to breathe—and I didn’t know if I could endure this while choking on the sensations of a collapsed lung too.What I saw may as well have collapsed both of my lung