LOGINIt might be the last time I ever heard him laugh. Mother was killed soon after.I couldn’t protect her, but I will do everything in my power to protect my people. Starting with killing three Sun Warriors and getting one step closer to finding my mole.I release the arrow, but I don’t watch the elega
OwenAfter Tresalia has enthusiastically agreed to join the war efforts against the Sun Warriors, I head northwest toward the outer border between Tresalia and Quartane. It’s not particularly hard to convince anyone to go to war against the humans, what with the continued werewolf killings.That and
Then again, it would have been disastrous for the kingdom if I ended up with a human, and the daughter of the most fearsome Sun Warrior our people have ever known at that. I would have been blinded by my love for Amelia and never understood how terrible humans could be.I would have been wholly unpr
OwenDiego wanted to join me. But I couldn’t let him come. I sent him with Father to the eastern territories instead.Diego’s still my number one suspect as our mole, so I need him as far away from my plan as possible.I bounce atop my trotting horse through Dosian toward the beginning of the Red Fo
I make sure he eats, that someone offers to take care of him for the night. Tomorrow, we’ll talk to him more and send out scouts to see if he has any living family members left alive. If not, there are a lot of families here ready to adopt another child orphaned by werewolves.He’ll be okay.I have
NatashaOnce the First Quarter is back in view, I slow my jog to a walk for the comfort of the child on my back. He’s not hurt, so we’re not in a rush now that we’re almost back to the village.Sebastian and the scout from today’s run hurry past me, carrying a man between them. He was conscious when
AmeliaOwen and I are mates.Those five words have been repeating in my mind for the past week since he told me. I’m afraid for it to be true because I want it so desperately.He’s handsome and kind and intelligent and silly and undeniably flawed, still holding on to prejudiced views against my spec
AmeliaI know I was the one who requested space from Owen. I was relieved at first when Isaiah arrived to escort me to training an hour later. Then, as I won more of my sparring matches than ever, about three quarters of them, I turned around to share my excitement with Owen.But he wasn’t there.I
OwenIt’s a half-day ride on horseback to the Home for the Forgotten in Dosian where I first met Amelia. I push out any remaining thoughts of how she refuses to see me or Ava wanting to plan our Luna ceremony as I urge my horse onward in the light of the setting sun.It’s after nightfall when I arri
My shoulders sag in relief. I set down the box of Amelia’s mother’s belongings that I realize I’m still holding.“I also forgot she said she’d come by to remove my cast today,” Amelia says, trying to make me feel better, I guess.I watch as the doctor does a few more tests on Amelia’s newly uncasted







