LOGIN“It’s okay,” I say, trying to reassure him with a smile he knows is false. If he couldn’t already read it on my face, I know he can feel my unease through our bond. It’s so hard for me to lie here still.Doing nothing.“Maybe you could try talking to her?” Alexander suggests.I glance at her face, w
EvelynI want to be sitting in the empty chair next to Emma’s bed. Dr. Zorinski told me to stay horizontal in my bed, and I nodded, completely intending to ignore her instructions once she was out of the room.But she knows me too well.“Evelyn,” she said, “listen to me. You and your baby are safe,
EvelynThe restraint that Alexander displayed in wolf form was monumental.I rushed out of the tent when his roars approached, and I watched as he tore through the temporary camp. I watched as he sent tents flying—but didn’t touch a single werewolf.Lucas grabbed me and started to run, but the snarl
EvelynThe first blow is so quick and shocking that I’m down on the ground before I fully process that Lucas punched me. Not a slap even. A closed-fist sucker punch to the face.Strangely, my first thought is to avoid the nearby pile of my own puke.Maybe it’s that trivial concern that gives Lucas e
EvelynThe nausea starts to trickle in halfway through the Royal City.Lucas, Emma, and I are at the front of the rebel company now. We realized as soon as we crossed the bridge that another battle might break out in the streets between the rebels and the lycans trying to protect their homes.So the
We make our way to the end of the off-shoot toward the main hallway. The sound of clanging metal and screams gets my wolf’s attention. She wants me to shift.Wants to fight.Wants to defend her people. Lycan and werewolf alike.But I hold her back. Lucas still has a silver knife to Emma’s throat.Th
EvelynIt’s been an emotional two weeks.Every second that Alexander has been working, trying to protect lycans from the growing werewolf threat, I’ve spent making memories with Emma. We didn’t talk about the fact that it’s our last two weeks together before I escape. We just train and make music an
EvelynThere are four horses tied up outside Tomson’s house: Tomson’s, my dad’s, and two I don’t recognize. I pull off into the nearby forest a little ways out from the house, leaving my horse with Emma who only barely agrees to wait behind when I remind her that she’s not safe as a lycan in werewol
AlexanderI guess I’ll be missing dinner with Evelyn.I send a servant off with a note to Evelyn that she should eat with Emma tonight because I have to work late and that I look forward to climbing in bed with her later.I’m too much of a coward to go tell her myself, to see the disappointment and
I maybe only have a few hours before Alexander goes back to his room for dinner and finds me missing.“I have to go find him,” I tell Emma.I can tell she doesn’t like this idea. “It’s too dangerous. You shouldn’t be out here at all, and the only reason I agreed to this plan was because you would be







