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
His voice was gentle. Reaching. “And I apologize for not thinking more clearly about this and letting my own emotions and desires get me carried away. I’ve turned us into a rebound situation, and that’s not what I wanted.” “Are you calling me a rebound?” He smiled wryly. “I think it would be m
Grace Something in me snarled. No, he wasn’t right. He was just trying to trick me. I pushed those thoughts away. He was just trying to make me forget the fact that he was hiding this woman from me, that he was protecting her, that she was more important than me. It didn’t matter if I always thoug
“It's not just about her name, Charles," I said, my voice choked with emotion. "It's about the fact that you’re hiding things from me." “Honestly, Grace, you haven’t given me a single reason to believe that you could handle the information. I’ve told you what is really important for your purposes.
Grace He smiled softly at me. There was a sort of relieved light in his eye. It felt abrasive, grating against every part of me. “Are we okay to actually discuss this now?” I didn’t want to discuss anything. I wanted a name and a location. I wanted to feel like I was more important than his ma
“He doesn’t have to know anything about potions for someone to stop or keep selling them to him.” “He doesn’t. But after what he did to the Noir Coven. He’s made himself an enemy of most witches. Even witches who aren’t allied, or on good terms, with the Noir Coven, would be wary about continuing