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 POVI froze.Every word I'd prepared vanished. I'd planned the whole speech for a stranger. I had nothing ready for this. For him. My arms were still around his neck and I couldn't make them let go.Damon didn't move either. He just looked down at me, frowning, like I was a math problem that
Mira's POVAlyssa looked at the empty chair across from me. The one with no coat on it, no second mug, no sign that anyone had been sitting there or was going to."He's not here yet," I said."Oh." She drew the word out. "He's running late?"“Yeah, the traffic,” I said too quickly. I tucked a strand
Mira's POVI picked up my bag and walked to the back row.Every eye in the room followed me. I could feel it — Piper and Alyssa's disbelief, Jason's frozen expression, the careful silence from the other wolves. I sat down in the empty chair next to Damon and set my notebook on the desk like nothing
Mira's POVHe looked away first.Damon Voss turned his gaze back to the front of the room like I was a wall he'd glanced at by accident. He then sat down in the back row with his two friends.I forced myself to look at my desk. My heart was doing something strange. Not fear. Something else. Somethin







