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AIDEN'S POVShe lied! Of course she would.I hadn't expected much from her, not really, because she was hardly going to announce herself as Howard Quinn's daughter straight into the hands of her father's greatest rival, that would have been cutting her own throat for me, and whatever else she was, she didn't look like a foo to mel.I moved closer to her slowly, with a predator's unhurried pace, the kind of approach that gave the prey time to feel every inch of the distance closing, and there was a flicker of amusement in my eyes that I didn't bother hiding, while she coiled herself tighter with every step, winding her own rope, though she'd have called it composure, called it control.The atmosphere grew tense, the air thickened between us, and it was as if I were pressuring her simply by existing in the same space, and I let it sit that way because pressure was a tool like any other.I stopped directly in front of her, close enough to feel the heat radiating off her skin, and crouche

“April, he didn’t tell you about his curse. And what happens to whoever he marks?.”Those words rang in my ears and vibrated straight through my body before I’d even fully processed them. They caught my attention immediately — not just because of what they said but because of how they landed, like something dropped from a huge height.This was the second time.. this was the second fucking time tonight I’d heard something about Aiden’s plans, his curse, about his marks nobody seemed willing to explain out loud, and I was starting to genuinely wonder why I was the only one left so completely in the dark.“What do you mean by his curse?” I asked carefully. “And what happens to the people he marks?”Zyla went quiet for a moment. She pushed the door open and walked in properly, like she’d already half-decided to say more and was just taking her time getting to it. She moved the way people move when they’re carrying information they know they shouldn’t have but enjoy having anyway.“Zyla? E

Zara’s voice arrived in my head like someone walking through a door I’d forgotten was there. She sounded flat, unbothered, carrying the energy of something ancient that had witnessed catastrophes and was not particularly impressed by this one.I blinked. “What?”Zyla didn’t lie entirely, she said. She never does. It’s more inconvenient that way. She told you what she knew, which was partial information missing context, delivered at the most damaging possible moment.And she was damn good at that.“Zara.” My voice came out sharp. “If she was wrong then tell me how.”“I mean the curse is real,” she said. “From what the kid said about his wolf wolf going berserker in the full moon and him transforming to a Lycan form. All that I believe is real. Then also the deaths of the people he marked before — also real.”“For someone with a powerful wolf as he had, it was most likely the targeted mate would go crazy, unable to handle it. But…”She paused for a breath“But those wolves were not you.

I tilted my neck and it cracked satisfyingly, then flexed my fingers and closed my eyes.I channeled something — not force exactly, more like intention — into my fingertips and then the claws came forward.It wasn’t the explosive uncontrolled kind from before. Not the desperate emergency version that had surfaced during the worst moments of last night. This was intentional. Responding to what I asked of it the way I had always imagined it would feel during all those years of trying and feeling absolutely nothing come back.Damn.I raised my hands and looked at them properly.My claws were long, slightly darker than my natural nails, and sharp in a way that was immediately, obviously not for decoration. Wrong for humans. Perfect for me. I stared at them with an awe I couldn’t hide and didn’t particularly try to.I thought of Luke’s face at the altar, his lip curling around the word weakness. I thought of Maxwell pointing at me in the dark with satisfaction in his eyes.I thought of fo

APRIL’S POVThe mate bond hit me like a second wave the moment I laid downIt came out of nowhere and went everywhere simultaneously — a warmth that started somewhere low and spread upward through my chest and made absolutely no sense given that I was exhausted and not in any way in the mood.Every single nerve in my body felt like it was on fire, my breath was becoming deeping, my heart beat you could trust was beating faster too.My wolf wasn't making it any easier, in fact she wanted me to give in. Zara purred beneath my skin, restless and being lustful, constantly pushing the same desire into my head.“Go meet Aiden, let's mate,” Zara whispered in a tempting voice.I clenched my fists so hard my claws dug into my palms.“No, are you crazy?” I muttered through my gritted teeth “We are not doing this so stop”“Me crazy? Absolutely not, you are the one that will go nuts thinking you can avoid or resist this”My skin burned, my senses were suddenly working perfectly without my control