Hector’s POVWhen it struck me out of the blue, the headache felt like someone had lanced a spear straight through the middle of my brain, and I startled, letting out a sharp hiss of pain in response as my phone slipped out of my fingers.The loud bass of the music playing practically swallowed its
The dazed sheen in her eyes told me she was half-drunk, or at least pretending to be for some reason, and she parted her lips to say something that would no doubt fall along the lines of her usual fashion with me.I decided to cut to the chase, asking if she’d seen Layla.Palmer shook her head lazil
Hector’s POVLess than twenty minutes later I stood hunched over a monitor, going over grainy footage from the only CCTV camera positioned in the alleyway leading out the back exit.Palmer was beside me, and together we flanked the pale-skinned technician, who sat in front of the monitor, cringing e
Hector’s POVThe journey back to Greensborough was silent when Palmer finally gave up after the multiple failed attempts at trying to wheedle answers out of me on what I planned to do once we got in.Taking in the strange scene we presented now—the blonde sat at a spot in the limo that was farthest
Hector’s POVThe words did not immediately register, but as soon as they did I felt myself freeze as my mind immediately went to the grainy loop of an older woman walking into frame and lowering her head to kiss Jasper.She had positioned herself in a way that made it practically impossible to tell
Hector’s POVInitially I thought that I misheard Michael, and I continued to stare at the older man, who never glanced away, meeting my gaze with a levelled look of his own that made the hairs at the nape of my neck prickle as the futility of that hope evaporated slowly. No, I wasn’t going to be th
But hearing Michael say it, a man more prone to understatement than exaggeration… by the Moon Goddess. It left me cold. Eventually, I recovered enough to the question that now loomed over both of us.“If what you say is true, then why haven’t I ever heard of them?”He didn’t miss a beat. “Because
Hector’s POV“I grew up knowing of the Crimson Shadow Pack,” Michael confessed. I watched his gaze go soft and unfocused as he was mentally transported back to that time.“This was not because they weren’t reclusive back then, because they were. Back then, when people knew of them, they hardly made