Alpha’s Forbidden Mate
"And yet the first thing we find is a little Eden. Convenient, huh?"
Carolina grinned, not unkindly. "Maybe it’s a trap."
"Maybe it’s a gift," Xander said, too quickly, which made Carolina look at him harder.
The twins were already up, hands sticky with pollen and sap, giggling as they climbed the tree. At the top, the twins sang a song from an old world, their voices sharp as wet stones, and the others soon joined in. The sound melded with the waking garden, harmonizing with the cicadas, with the slow groan of the water as it parted for the drifting raft. It was not a hymn of gratitude, exactly—Carolina’s people never had much patience for thanks—but it echoed with something like relief, th
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