LOGINMERRY CHRISTMAS šš¤
I've been staring at this screen trying to figure out how to say what I want to say without sounding like a Hallmark card lol... but here goes.
Thank you.
Like genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Do you know what it feels like to be a small author? It feels like shouting into the void and hoping someone hears you. It feels like putting pieces of your soul into a story and wondering if anyone will care. It feels like refreshing your stats at 3am just to see if one more person clicked.
And then you showed up.
You clicked. You read. You stayed. You voted. You commented. You added my book to your library like it mattered.
And to me? That's everything.
That's you saying "I see you and I pick you." Out of all the books on this app, you picked mine. Do you know how insane that is? How grateful I am?
So here's my Christmas wish... if this book has made you feel something, anything... would you leave me a review? š„ŗš
It doesn't have to be perfect. Just real. Just you and your thoughts and your words. Tell me what you loved, what you hated, what made you scream into your pillow lol. I want to hear it all.
Reviews are how other readers find me. But more than that... hearing from you reminds me why I do this.
Merry Christmas, loves. You're making my dreams come true and you don't even know it š¤
ā Remi š¤
EMBERāS POVHe stops.And heās grinning down at me, both of us breathing hard, my wrists still caught loose and warm in the cage of his hand above my head, my whole body gone soft and shaking with the last aftershocks of the laughter.And something in his face shifts as he looks down at me, the grin easing into something else, something that changes the air in the room, thickens it.āThere,ā he says, low. āWas that so hard?āāI confessed under torture. It wonāt hold up.āāYou looked happy under torture.ā His thumb strokes once, slowly, over the frantic pulse in my wrist. āYouāve looked happy all day. I noticed the second you walked through that door.ā His eyes travel my face ā the flush still high in my cheeks, the wreck of my hair fanned across the pillow, the smile I canāt get rid of. āIāve never seen you like that. Not once, in all the time Iāve known you. You came home lit up. You walked past a council elder laughing so hard you didnāt even see her.ā His voice drops another regist
EMBERāS POVKnox finds me a couple of hours later, after Queenieās left and the lightās gone gold across the mountains.Iām sitting cross-legged in the middle of the enormous bed we share, pretending to sort the dayās spoils and actually just running my palm over the ridiculous soft weight of a coat I absolutely did not need, feeling that dangerous, unfamiliar thing again.The one I keep waiting to be punished for. Peace.He stops in the doorway.āEmber.āāMm?āāWe need to discuss the gate.āāDo we, though?ā I donāt look up. āOr could the gate simply be a beautiful, unspoken mystery between us, a thing we neverāāāItās six feet tall.āāItās abstract.āāEmber.ā He comes into the room, and thereās a slow, deliberate danger to the way he moves, and I finally look up, and his face is fighting very hard to be stern and losing at every seam. āA council elder photographed my front gate. She is going to show people. She told me to my face ā I want you to understand she said this directly to m
EMBERāS POVKnox goes still. The King comes up behind his eyes.āCatherine.āāYou didnāt hear it from me.ā She folds her hands. āBut youāve a right to it, and there are those on the council whoād very much prefer you didnāt have it, which is exactly why Iām the one giving it to you.ā Her pale gaze locks onto his. āElder James has been busy.āAnd just like that, the warmth drains out of the room like water out of a cracked glass, and I feel Knox change beside me.āBusy how?ā he asks.āAlphas.ā Catherineās voice has gone flat and precise. āThey are moving. Quietly. From packs that have no earthly business speaking to one another ā the northern territories, the western coast, and some from a great deal further afield than that. Theyāve been coming and going for weeks, meeting in places that appear on no official record, and every one of those meetings has Jamesās fingerprints somewhere close by, though never quite on it. Heās careful. Heās always been careful, that man. Itās his one real
EMBERāS POVCatherine doesnāt so much as glance at him. Sheās looking at me.āWhen I met you,ā she says, slower now, āyou were a woman being taken apart by procedure. You stood in that chamber, and you told the truth, and they very nearly buried you alive for it. And by the end you had the look of someone whoād already given up on being saved.ā Her voice gentles, and itās worse than if sheād been cruel. āI know that look, Ember. Iāve seen it on more women than I could ever count. Itās the look of someone who stopped expecting good things a long, long time ago ā because in her experience, every good thing was only ever the quiet part before the next bad one.āI canāt speak. The bag is crushed flat against my chest.āAnd now.ā She spreads one hand, taking in the whole absurd scene ā the bags, the ribbon, me. āNow I walk into this house, and there is an abomination at the front gate, and I was informed by a staff member that there are five hundred rubber ducks somewhere in this buildingā
EMBERāS POVāSo, funny storyāāāEmber.āāDo you want it right now, or should we save it for a moment when there isnāt an elder present toāāCatherine makes a noise.It begins as a wheeze.And my very first thought is I have killed her; I have killed the only elder who ever liked me, felled by a marble penis; thatās my whole legacy; thatās what theyāll carve on my headstone ā and then her narrow shoulders start to shake.And the wheeze cracks wide open, and she turns from the window with genuine tears streaking her weathered face, laughing so hard she has to seize the windowsill to stay upright.āA sundial,ā she gasps out, clutching her ribs. āYou looked me in the eye and called it a sundial! I am just picturing the High Council arriving soon and trying to politely check the time on a six-foot, veiny schlong!āThere is nothing left of me. I am a shell. I am officially dead.āThe high council will arrive next week for the annual gala.ā Sheās mopping at her eyes with one hand, entirely g
EMBERāS POVāHeās going to divorce me.āāYouāre not married.āāHeās going to divorce me preemptively.ā Iām losing a war with six shopping bags in the back of the car while Daxon and Reyes unload the rest in a haunted silence that says theyāve seen more today than they have in their entire jobs. āHeās going to invent a brand-new kind of divorce specifically for this.āāEmber, breathe,ā Queenie says, practically vibrating with glee. āThe damage is already done. Itās set in stone. Literally.āShe clutches a spool of ribbon to her chest like a religious artefact.āDo you understand the sheer poetry of this? Just picture it. The most terrifying Lycan on the continent is going to walk out his front door in a perfectly tailored suit to survey his estate, and he is going to make direct eye contact with six feet ofāāāDonāt.āāāpremium, monumental yard-penisāāāQueenie, I swearāāāāand I want front-row seats.ā Sheās radiant. āI want to see the exact moment his soul leaves his body. Iād pay a f
EMBERāS POVI stare down at Knox on his knees, my pulse slamming so hard I can feel it between my legs. He's grinning up at me like a wolf who's already tasted blood, gold eyes glowing, fangs just barely peeking past his lip.I fold my arms, pretending my thighs aren't already trembling."What do I
KNOXāS POVHe blinks, the picture of innocence. āIām not sure I understand. I explained the purpose quite clearly at the beginning of the evening. Conflict resolution. Closure. An opportunity for all parties toāāāBullshit.āThe word is deadpan, and I see Loganās head snap up, see Galeās sobbing st
EMBERāS POVI slump back into my seat unconsciously, not realizing how rigidly Iād been holding myself until the tension drains away.Knox lifts our entwined hands to his lips and presses a kiss to my knuckles, his eyes on me.It slows the tightening in my chest. Loosens the knot that Harrisonās qu
EMBERāS POVāBecause I saw you on the news.ā His voice cracks again. āDuring a press conference. I saw you standing up there, speaking to the camera, saying five words they have haunted me every night. You are dead to me. And though it wasnāt directed at me, I felt it so much. I felt it down to my







