Kane’s POV “Is this what you want, Luna?” I asked, pointing to her and then myself. “The Alpha on the wrong side of his desk.” “No, Kane,” she replied, rising so quickly she bumped her knee. I was always doing that. “You took me by surprise.” “Chance would be a fine thing,” I grumbled. “It’s good to have you back.” “Really? Why?” “Don’t spoil it with cynicism. I like your sense of humour It reminds me of – ” “New York? I never did get round to thanking Elvis,” I said. “If he had solved our puzzle earlier I wouldn’t have come to know you better.” “Still a smooth talker, I see.” “A few days doesn’t change a man.” “Sometimes it does.” She always had to have the last word. It was kinda infuriating yet I quite liked it all the same. “If you say so, Luna.” “Call me Amy, Kane. And it wasn’t any old puzzle and certainly not solved by a banker named after a rock ’n roll singer that everyone seems to want to impersonate.” “I thought he worked in a museum.” “I’m not going to argue
Amy’s POV Retribution beckoned in the form of either a rogue or a member of the living dead. I hoped Kane wouldn’t give up on me when he was back to full health. I didn’t even want to think about how long my half-brother had left. Maybe Mina would come for the leftovers, if it wasn’t too late by then. Would Lisa even shed a tear? It was doubtful. Was she missing Noah? I really didn’t want him dragging into this mess of my making. Seems I returned just in time to save you from yourself. Agatha? I knew you’d let me down. Just not like this. What happened to strong Amy, ready to take on the shifter world? Michael Satyr. Ah. An unknown factor. His wolf refuses to leave, I hear. You can say that again. Pretend to go along with it and then, when I give you the nod, disappear. Just like that? I can’t even see you. Don’t be difficult, Amy Jordan. Truman, I corrected. Are you sure about that? There wasn’t a wedding band on my finger, though I’d worn his collar. More than one. I d
Amy’s POVIt was cold in the underground bunker. Being surrounded by root vegetables didn’t help my mood any. But there was farmland above us, and Noah and I had to eat.Apart from being weaker than normal and very pale, he was able to complain about the lack of meat.“What I wouldn’t give for a jack rabbit or two.”“Mom had a recipe for jugged hare. Delicious.”“Don’t, Luna.”“Sorry,” I said.We were sharing the same cell, but only until nightfall.“How’s Lisa?”“Strange,” I told him.The Delta gave the ghost of a grin. “A lie would have been preferable.”“It’s not entirely her fault.”I went on to say that I believed she was being controlled by another.“Who, exactly?”“You’re going to have to trust me on this one,” I said, just as Mina appeared, looking anxious.“The prince is awake,” she announced. “It’s highly unusual. He must sense your presence.”A white-haired woman appeared behind her and Noah shrank back.“Leander always oversleeps,” the newcomer said, with scorn. She peered
Kane’s POVObliterating Blaylock was my number one priority. Yet my sister kept getting in the way. If I didn’t know better I would have suspected she was doing it on purpose. And after I’d let her off with a caution following her unscheduled visit to Zena. I didn’t have the heart to reprimand her properly, given what she was going through.I informed Ms Harvey in no uncertain terms that I wasn’t going to spend another second in her lab as a guinea pig and that she was lucky I didn’t throw her ass in my dungeon.Francis backed me up, for which I was eternally grateful. Cornelius opened and closed his thin lips a few times but nothing of substance emerged. At this stage I wouldn’t have been surprised to see ectoplasm.It had been that kind of a year.I asked to see my clone then changed my mind.“Have it brought to my office.”The lookalike could be dismantled there. It was as good a place as any, and I assumed Darius would be handy with a hammer.Lisa turned up unexpectedly. Actually,
Amy’s POVThe prince took the fur coat from my shoulders in a sensuous move which I suspected he had performed many times before.“Lie down and stretch out your arm,” he ordered.Unlike the Alpha, there was no aura, yet I hurried to obey. Fear had diminished, leaving a heady anticipation.Had he softened me up merely by placing his cold lips on mine?The man who entered looked ghastly. Saliva dripped from fangs he was unable to properly conceal when he saw me. I jammed my legs together, wondering wildly if I’d forgotten to shave them.That wasn’t the part he was interested in, but he obeyed the vampire prince and kept his bloodless white hands to himself as he attached an odd-looking contraption to my bare upper limb.A vampire with a bald head chose that moment to glide through the door.“Mina said you woke early again. Oh, is this the new lady?”“Allow me to introduce Arnold, my second-in-line. This is Amy, a healthy she-wolf. I doubt she will be joining our group.”“Can I watch you
Amy’s POV Did I mention his lips were cold? I scarcely noticed at first until a pint of rhesus negative left my rapidly cooling limbs. Come to think of it, the whole room was freezing. “Are there any candles?” I murmured, drowsily. “I thought you would want to sleep, my precious.” “I meant for warmth.” “Arnold.” Mina’s crush had several attempts before an elaborate candelabra appeared in his gloved hand. Any other vampire might have set his hair alight. I suppressed a giggle. Maybe this wasn’t the first such request. Still gawking at me was the farmer I’d dubbed Horace. I supposed he had to stick around to oversee proceedings. Then it struck me. I’d been likened to a cow. This new drowsiness was getting in the way of my indignation. I allowed my head to loll back on the pillow and closed my eyes. I really didn’t want to see the rust and peeling black paint. “What’s your castle like?” Arnold tittered. “She doesn’t know, does she?” Prince Leander ignored him. “I’m about to
Kane’s POVI had no idea what Ingrid’s sister was talking about but I played along.“What do you take me for? I’m not someone who would ever pry into another’s private affairs.”“Affairs? Good choice of word. Did Jake enlighten you? Lori said he stole it at one point.”I might have known Amy’s brother would be involved somewhere along the line.“Do you want it back?”“There is no point,” she said, her tone bleak.One less thing for my to-do list.“Don’t give up,” I urged. “Mina hasn’t.” Her mouth opened and closed but she said nothing. “Noah?”“I’ll take you to him, though I should warn you, he’s very sick.”She wasn’t lying. Those furs seemed familiar and yet my Delta’s teeth were chattering.“Amy?” I queried.My sister’s mate did his best to respond through a parched mouth. Ingrid offered him a little water from her flask, a drop at a time.“In case you’re wondering, that’s my coat,” Diana said.“Good of you to think of him. I mean it.”“Prince Leander likes the females in his group
Amy’s POVIt seemed I was his new flavour of the month, or so Mina informed me. I groaned and began to scratch my back. I didn’t fancy her input in that respect; her nails were close to talons. Well, maybe I am exaggerating a little.“Where are we?”I didn’t really expect an answer.“In transit.”It meant precisely nothing to me.“Is that why everything is grey?”“Uh-oh. I think you might be coming down with something. As far as I’m concerned this whole cloud is yellow.”Cloud, what cloud?“Well, I’m not a vampire,” I snapped.“Someone’s crotchety this evening.”Crotchety? She didn’t know the half of it.“Where’s Diana?”Mina’s face changed.“Lost,” was all she said.I felt lonely all by myself following her abrupt departure and attempted to contact Anastasia.Success!For here she was sitting beside me on whatever this fluffy cotton shape was as we floated to nowhere in particular.“Hey,” I said. “What’s happening, Stace?”The blind spirit took me literally.“Kane’s searching for you