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
Grace Consciousness bled back slowly, like dawn filtering through the dense canopy of a forest. Sounds, muted and blurry at first, sharpened into the rhythmic whir of helicopter blades and the sharp barks of Enforcers. My vision, blurred by sleep and a grogginess I couldn’t explain, gradually focu
“That’s bullshit!” “Read the treaty a bit more closely,” Charles said airly and turned to an Enforcer. “Do you have an update? “Headless Nick’s name is Weiss Torrent; I know and associate with the previous WSU leader and a well-known werewolf supremacist. We found plans on the body regarding Alp
Grace My blood ran cold. "What do you mean?" “The man I killed, the one we’re saying is Alpha Shadow, isn’t.” He paused. “Well---” “Is this some sort of joke?” I growled. “It’s not funny.” There was no way that Eason would make me lie in front of the constituents. There was no way that we'd
“Now, I have to ask,” I said, looking at him. “Were you a part of the plan?” He let out a deep sigh, rubbing his head. “For the love of the moon, Grace, listen to yourself.” “Listen to myself? You’re the one protecting a terrorist!” I narrowed my eyes. “You’re the one lying. Betraying me just li
Charles I could taste her frustration in the air. The scent of it was almost enough to choke me. Her eyes were filled with a hopeless panic. Then, her eyes narrowed at me. “Alpha Shadow is a woman, isn’t she?” I met her gaze, searching her face and knowing where she was going with this. I was al
She hissed, her eyes flashed as she got in my face and snarled. “Don’t talk about my family!” “Then think about them,” I said calmly, searching her face. “You fail this Senate thing, you back out, and there will be another attack on Mooncrest, guaranteed.” “And you’d just let it happen, wouldn’t
Grace The nerve of this bastard to try and turn it around on me when he’s the one who was lying. The nerve of him to try and pretend like it was my fault that this was happening. He sounded just like Devin, blaming me when he was doing wrong. Well, Grace, if you had just been a better wife… I