LOGINMira's POVAlyssa's mouth opened. Nothing came out."Because from where I'm standing," Damon said, stepping inside without waiting to be invited, "the only person in this kitchen making accusations without evidence is you." His voice was level. Almost bored. The way someone with real authority speak
Mira's POVIt wasn't possible.I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, the laptop shut on the desk like a box I'd sealed something dangerous inside.Vampire hybrid. The idea was absurd. There had never been a single documented case of a vampire and a shifter having a child. Not one in recorded history.
Mira's POVThe stairs were the only way up, and Alyssa was planted right in the middle of them."What are you talking about?" I kept my voice even. Tried to."Your little interview today." Alyssa leaned against the bannister, arms still folded. "The way you kept tugging your earlobe. The way you loo
Damon's POVI got in the car.It was warm inside. The seats were dark leather, the dashboard all soft-lit dials and quiet electronics. It smelled faintly of something cold and clean underneath — cedar, maybe, or just the way vampires smelled when the air was still. I buckled my seatbelt, set my bag
Damon's POV"Hello to you too, Father.""Don't." His voice could have frozen the line. "A wolf. You're on every feed in the territory kissing a wolf. Have you completely lost your mind?"I leaned against the brick wall of the auditorium building, phone to my ear, and let him stew. The boys stood in
Okay. It was fine. It was acting. That's all it was.Damon's POV"All right," Felix said the second we went through the door to a small seminar room. "What in the world was that?""You're not actually doing this." Nikolai's voice was flat. Disbelieving. "Tell me you're not actually dating a wolf."I
Mira's POVThere was no way out of it.Damon Voss had just invited me onto his lap in a packed auditorium, and if I said no — if I stood there and refused him in front of all these people — that would be the story. Not the lecture. Us. The wolf girl who turned down the Lord's son.So I sat.I perche
Mira's POV****Dream****I'm small.The walls are dirt and they go up too high and there's no roof, just a square of gray sky way up at the top. My knees are scraped. Something is crusted on my arm and I don't want to look at it.There's a boy in the pit with me. He's pale, even paler than me, and h
Mira's POVWe worked out the rules like a class schedule.Lunch together every day, where people could see. Leave campus together after school — or at least walk to the parking lot at the same time. If we ran into each other anywhere public, sit together, say hello, look like two people who wanted t
Damon's POVShe let go of my hand like I'd burned her."I'm so sorry." The words came out in a rush — tripping over each other, barely finished before the next one started. Mira Hale stepped back, color flooding her face, her hands pulling at the cuffs of her hoodie like she could disappear inside i







