LOGIN“She took it off?” I blurted out.Gideon arched a brow. He didn’t answer.“Let me see her—”“She doesn’t want you, Sebastian,” he cut me off. “She never did, and you’ve hurt her enough for three lifetimes. If you come near her again, if I catch your scent within a mile of this place, I won’t be as p
Sebastian’s POVColt came back from the party around dawn. I hadn’t slept. I’d been pacing the room for hours, the same way I had every night for weeks, waiting on a knock or a shadow or the smell of soil that meant she was coming for me again.When the door finally opened, it was just Colt, his sui
“Do you think he did?” she asked.I looked down at the dark glass in her lap.“I don’t know,” I admitted.I had no way of knowing whether Bjorn had heard a single word I had said or if he just felt the pull with no real understanding of it. Either way, there was nothing more I could do about it toni
Avery’s POVI worked through the rest of the day and into the evening, hunched over the witch’s table with tools that definitely weren’t meant for what I was using them for, grinding and steeping and mixing until my back ached and my eyes burned from the fumes.I started by drying a handful of the s
I couldn’t remember, honestly. And looking at her sitting there in the morning light, relaxed and smiling and back to herself, I didn’t want to argue with any of it.“Yeah,” I said, throwing the covers off. “Let’s do it. Bjorn’ll love it.”She lit up. “Perfect. I’ll make sandwiches.”By midmorning w
Gideon’s POVI woke up to sunlight pouring through the curtains and Avery already awake beside me, propped up on one elbow, watching me sleep.As I cracked my eyes open and saw her there looking at me, the night before came rushing back in a tsunami of conflicting feelings and confusion. My hand wen







