Grace Pain, a searing flash that ripped through the fog of primal fury, brought me crashing back to reality. My jaws clamped down on… metal? Stone? Something so hard, I swear my teeth chipped. The metallic and sparkling tang of blood and something else filled my mouth as I recoiled, a whimper esca
Until I’d ripped the men who took her apart. "Grace!" Charles' voice boomed behind me, laced with urgency. "Slow down! Stay under my shield!" I should have. I wanted to, but I couldn’t get my body to slow or turn back. She was so close. I’m coming, honey. Mommy’s coming. Corners blurred, co
Grace I snarled low in my throat. His presence, even disembodied, felt like a predator stalking its prey. It felt like I was back in that dream, surrounded by destruction and alone. The darkness felt deeper than it should have. My stomach turned. I felt my bravado faltering as memories from the dr
Charles threw himself in front of me and threw up his hands, stopping the beam in midair. “Get her out!” Charles roared. “Now!” Someone else grabbed me. I fought and pushed. Moments later, he followed as the beam came crashing down. The impact sent a shockwave through the building that pushed me
Charles Grace went down like a bag of bricks. Shit. Just when I thought things couldn’t get worse. She’d probably feel like shit for days, but I had a feeling that she had lasted way longer than I should have expected. An Enforcer caught her as another group of men jumped out from another building
“Definitely not taking the easy route,” one of the Enforcers said, his face grim. “They probably don’t have that spell anymore, but they’re smart enough to know that it would be damn hard to catch them in this traffic.” We couldn’t put in barriers because it might interfere with the other cars dri
Charles The air crackled with the raw power of the spell. The gun he held clattered to the ground. His body collapsed like a marionette with cut strings, twitching every so often. Blood splashed and spurted out from his neck, covering Cecil as she fell to the ground with a soft sob. The scent of b
Dead. I turned my thoughts away from the coup and back to the present. I looked over at Cecil. Alpha Shadow. Devin's debts. Sean Caldwell. The states. The war. Astarte… There were connections I was missing. Simple answers that might make things clearer, but I couldn't figure them out right now