I squinted, feeling more confused than I had ever been in my life.What are you saying? I wanted to ask him. The Mind or the Body?Inside me, Hal stirred with discontent.‘WE ARE WASTING TIME,’ my wolf growled.Michael, oblivious to all of this, continued on smoothly.“It was hard to wrap my head ar
Hector’s POVMichael’s statement—spoken in that matter-of-fact, no nonsense tone of his—struck right to the heart of things, stopping me short. I flinched without meaning to.It was more of a knee jerk reaction than shock, but as we considered ourselves in the growing silence of his office, the rea
“Because, the Crimson Shadows for reasons I can only speculate on, had decided to systematically wipe out knowledge of even their existence from the surface of the earth.”I felt a chill settle through me at this response, and I shifted in my chair, frowning as he proceeded on, telling me of everyth
Hector’s POVThe words were barely spoken when I started to stand up from my seat, a hot bolt of panic flushing through me as I turned and made to start towards the door.“Where are you going?” Michael called from behind me.I could hear the sound of his chair scraping over the wood-panelled floors
“Alright, answers—I can give you that,” he conceded. “The woman that took Layla is known as Madeline. Madeline Lowell.”I felt my pulse flutter in my throat at the name, and the fact that it rang no bells didn’t stop the churning in my stomach as white hot hate coursed through me. It was an emotion
Our showdown had taken place barely almost two weeks ago, and I’d left him in a bad state. Yet here he stood in front of me, only slightly bruised up in the face, with a slight limp to his movements as evidence to show that he had almost died at my hands.In another week, tops, he was going to be a
Layla’s POVThere was no better way to put it than this: I could sense it, the danger I was in.Somehow, even before I was fully awake my brain alerted me, and from that point on, as I drew closer to consciousness, the feeling grew until I knew beyond every shadow of doubt that I was essentially fuc
Oh… I was foolish and reckless, and—An odd sensation brought my self-loathing thoughts to halt, and a split second passed before I heard my name.‘Layla.’The sound of Hector’s voice flooding into my consciousness felt surreal. For a moment, I was too shocked to respond, but this lasted only short