Valerie:The sun was already high by the time I peeled the covers off my body.By the time when I allowed myself to get up from bed, when I told myself that it was time for me to stand strong on my feet.My mother's words played in my mind and I knew that running away was not going to be the option
Caspian:The bed was cold.My hand reached for her instinctively, brushing across the empty sheets where Valerie should have been. Her warmth lingered faintly, but she was gone. And with the way the house felt, still, quiet, I knew she hadn’t just stepped into the next room. She was up completely. S
Valerie:The world felt different with the shield in place. I could feel the pulse of the earth under my bare feet, the way it rose and answered me like it had always been waiting for me to call it. I never realized how much of it had been inside me until now, how much power, how much life, how muc
Caspian:The air inside the estate was heavier than the cold that clawed at the windows. Every step I took echoed down the empty hallways like a warning. Something was coming. I could feel it in my blood.And whatever it was, they were close. Closer than I wanted them to be.Mateo met me at the w
Valerie:The pack was alive with tension. I could feel it under my skin, humming through the stones, through the trees that shuddered against the rising wind. This war was coming. And for once, I wasn’t afraid.If anything, I was more than ready.I tightened the cloak around my shoulders as I ma
Caspian:The great hall buzzed with low conversation, tension coiling in every corner like a living thing. They were all here, my warriors, my council, the elders, even some of the civilians who had asked to stay and fight if it came to it.Ryan was right when he said that the bastard had more enem
Valerie:I walked into the estate I once called home, the estate I was banished from five years ago. The appearance of it hadn’t changed, yet the weight of its walls felt heavier, steeped in memories I tried to suppress.“You should have fought back from the divorce. You should have fought back to t
Caspian:“What do you mean, ‘she’s here’?” I asked, my voice laced with a growl as I glared at my beta, Mateo. One thing that I did not want to be dealing with is the fact that she would be here, that I would be possibly seeing her. Even the idea of her presence was one that annoyed me.“She was see
Caspian:The great hall buzzed with low conversation, tension coiling in every corner like a living thing. They were all here, my warriors, my council, the elders, even some of the civilians who had asked to stay and fight if it came to it.Ryan was right when he said that the bastard had more enem
Valerie:The pack was alive with tension. I could feel it under my skin, humming through the stones, through the trees that shuddered against the rising wind. This war was coming. And for once, I wasn’t afraid.If anything, I was more than ready.I tightened the cloak around my shoulders as I ma
Caspian:The air inside the estate was heavier than the cold that clawed at the windows. Every step I took echoed down the empty hallways like a warning. Something was coming. I could feel it in my blood.And whatever it was, they were close. Closer than I wanted them to be.Mateo met me at the w
Valerie:The world felt different with the shield in place. I could feel the pulse of the earth under my bare feet, the way it rose and answered me like it had always been waiting for me to call it. I never realized how much of it had been inside me until now, how much power, how much life, how muc
Caspian:The bed was cold.My hand reached for her instinctively, brushing across the empty sheets where Valerie should have been. Her warmth lingered faintly, but she was gone. And with the way the house felt, still, quiet, I knew she hadn’t just stepped into the next room. She was up completely. S
Valerie:The sun was already high by the time I peeled the covers off my body.By the time when I allowed myself to get up from bed, when I told myself that it was time for me to stand strong on my feet.My mother's words played in my mind and I knew that running away was not going to be the option
Caspian:I laid beside her in the dim room, the warmth of her body pressed gently against mine as the weight of silence settled over us. It wasn’t the uncomfortable kind. It was thick with meaning, with grief, with all the words she hadn’t had the strength to say until now.With all the pain that sh
I frowned. “You came here to scold me? You really came here to remind me of something that I did not even want to think about right now?”“I came here to remind you who you are,” she said firmly. “You are not just my daughter. You are not just a sister who lost her brother. You are a Luna. You are t
Valerie:I felt like I hadn’t left the bed in days.I tried to, but my body would not allow it. It was as if it was complaining whenever I wanted to get up. It was as if my limbs were crying out in pain, begging me not to move, begging me to stay, showing me that I did not have a way out, that I wan