Elroy paused, several emotions flitting across his face in quick succession. I didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to decipher them all, though, not with everything I’d been through in the last few hours—let alone the last two weeks.I put my hand over my baby as I tried to come up with the ghost of
Elroy searched in my eyes for a moment before apparently deciding I was telling the truth (or maybe just figuring he would be able to catch me if I tried anything). He leaned back slowly, releasing my arm, and I kept my eyes on his as I closed the car door. Elroy looked pleased.“Good,” he said, tur
I had been monumentally stupid. Since Damian had accepted our Bond in the sacred ceremony and I wasn’t able to cut it off entirely, he had access to me through it. It wasn’t as powerful as a Bond accepted by both parties, but it was enough.Of course, now that I knew this I couldn’t leave the Bond a
There might be other ways to break the bond. There was no other way to feel my mother’s embrace.Damian could feel the moment my mind was made up, my determination echoing through the Bond, and he jumped to his feet with a roar. I didn’t flinch, but many of the other customers did.“Give it to me!”
I stared up at Elroy in shock. To invoke the Alpha—it was the only way to fight someone without their Fated Mate being injured as well, but it was also the most serious of all challenges. It was a gift from the Goddess, a privilege for Alphas alone, but the price for failure was astronomical.Elroy
No, frankly, the outcome was certain. Damian was smart, and quick on his feet, but he wasn’t going to win. There was nothing there to question, nothing to worry about.So why was I worried?Was I…actually concerned about Elroy? I shook my head at myself. That was just stupid—but I couldn’t deny tha
From Inside the RingElroy’s wolf was displeased. No, actually, Elroy’s wolf was enraged.This man, this worm, hurt his Luna, broke her heart, tried to take her from him, and now couldn’t even stand on his own merit in front of the Goddess? Elroy snarled, clearing his eyes of the blue haze just in t
But of course that was all false, because the moment I realized there was blood leaking through his shirt I glared at him and he confessed everything. “It’s just a cut along my side,” he said nonchalantly. “It’s not pretty but it’ll be healed by morning.”“It would heal by morning,” I hissed, “if it
Fay pursed her lips together, looking away from me as a single tear escaped down her cheek. The sight tore at me, and I knew there was absolutely nothing I could do to undo what I’d done to her. Just as awfully, there was nothing I could say. All the justifications in the world didn’t change what
It felt like I sat there for a long time, with Elroy slowly calming in my arms, though it was probably really only five minutes. Then I caught sight of Fay's fingers twitching once, a barely perceptible movement that sent Elroy into a frenzy. Before I could blink, he was on his feet, looming over me
Olivia’s POV My vision was gray around the edges when the pressure on my chest suddenly vanished. I gasped, cool air rushing into my starved lungs as I gulped it down greedily. For a split second I was so grateful I didn’t even bother wondering what happened. Then my vision cleared, and as I wat
Elroy’s POV The neon lights of the casino blurred together as my eyes finally broke open. I was alone in an empty casino, and Olivia was gone. I was groggy and uncoordinated, barely thinking as I struggled to push myself standing. My neck hurt where they’d buried the needle in, and whatever they
"Every single person here came on their own," Fay told me, her fingers absently tracing loops in the coarse dirt beneath us. “I never meant for this place to become a sanctuary, but one person came to us and then…" She trailed off, her gaze distant. My chest tightened. "How did they all find you?"
Cory nodded, his silver hair catching the dim light. "If you're comfortable, Luna Olivia." I hesitated, my hand instinctively moving to my belly. This could easily be a trap, but after the physical struggle of last night plus my panic attack, I couldn’t deny that I was terrified for my baby. Just
My bound hands trembled in front of me, the plastic tarp walls of the hut seeming to close in around me, matching the tightness in my chest. Ines's words echoed in my mind as I sat there alone, staining my previous views of the world. The realization sunk in deeper every second. The Omegas I’d bee
I truly believe that panic attack would have never stopped, if it weren’t for my body’s eventual exhaustion. I would have cried and screamed until my heart gave out, I would have died right there, but by the Goddess’s grace I passed out first. My whole body hurt when I woke up, and my wrists burne
The rough fabric of the sack scratched against my face as it was yanked away, leaving me adjusting to the limited moonlight. We were definitely outside—and above ground, thank god—but surrounded by trees. My first thought was that they’d taken me to the park, but there were no streetlights and too m