Sarah POVI opened the earliest of Olivia’s journals, back when she was a teenager. I knew I wanted to hear about insecurities, but I didn’t care about my motives. Zane had given these to me to read, and I intended to read them all.I can’t believe how fun the moon hunt was, even thought I didn’t re
I kind of agreed, but I made sure my face looked excited and engaged.“Just another orphanage?” she asked, striking the perfect note of astonishment. “We’re talking about children, pups and kids, who have no one else in their lives, no one, not an aunt or a cousin or even a family friend, who wants
Sarah POVI didn’t much care for the task, but I read over the online comments for the speeches we gave yesterday. There were videos for all of us speaking together, separately, and in weird little mashups.I mostly saw video clips of Melissa, “This is not some sort of spiritual camp or clinic, and
Sarah POVA few minutes with G****e had backed up Melissa’s assertion that the Beta Auxiliary League did good work. They had three primary activities: college scholarships based on merit and need, free vocational workshops, and free daycare for parents who were going to school. Melissa was going to
The president, a beta male whose name completely escaped me, kept a smile on his own face as he turned to look at me and asked, “No. Why do you ask?”“Because the cart was put there by a female alpha who has disguised herself as a gamma.” I looked around the large room, noting the gammas on the floo
Sarah POV“How did you know the servers were alphas in disguise?” Melissa asked.We had both sat down in large, comfortable armchairs that faced each other over a small coffee table. If it weren’t for the twenty monitors on the wall, it could have been the living room of someone’s apartment. There w
Sarah POV“Ah, but my fame wasn’t instant,” Melissa said. “As the alpha daughter of one of the leading pack families, I always knew I’d be living in a fishbowl.”“Got any secrets to—oh my! Did the robot hit the cart?”“I don’t think so. The camera angle isn’t great.”“We can complain to management,”
Then we both burst out laughing. After a few seconds, I got up and found the door to the promised restroom. I was as quick as I could be, and Melissa went in right after I came out.Alone, I looked around the room and wandered over by the cart. They would still need to clear the hotel. We would be h
Sarah POVAfter the onsite security personnel and police had come, taken Ella’s body along with our statements, and then left, it was early morning. I worried about the girls, but they were as keyed up as I, and finally we all just piled on Zane’s bed, which was now my bed as well. Zane had his arms
Sarah POVGinnyWolf: Sarah is a MOON WOLF??!! Are you KIDDING ME?WhiteKnuckling: This is a hoax. Total bullshit.PPPPJohnP: I knew it.ShangHairSurprise: Will she be reforming the Luna Temple again?Rosemary&Sage: Hey now, PPPPJohn, THAT’S bullshit.With a laugh, I put the phone in the purse Lainey
Sarah POV“We all fear death,” Zane said.That wasn’t what I meant at all, and I told him so. My dress turned to silver in the moonlight, and I held his warm hands in mine.“If you seek the truth, stop seeking enemies and find the moon,” I and the statue and someone else said, speaking as one.He lo
Zane POVIt was thallium poisoning.“The treatment is proceeding with Prussian blue, which traps thallium to keep it from being further absorbed, as well as activated charcoal and forced diuresis,” the doctor, whose name I learned was Vassles, told me.Sitting by Sarah’s bedside, I was trying hard n
Zane POV“Alpha Zane!”Never, in all the years he had been working for me, had I heard such a sound of panic in Hans’s voice.I looked up and out my window. Hans wasn’t in the house. I saw him frantically waving at me over by the poppy garden almost a mile away.I ran down the stairs and out of the
Sarah POVThe day was lovely—perfect, even. The girls were back in school and making up for lost time, Zane was in his office and waved to me as I walked past the villa, and all the “lieutenants” had gone home.It was odd to look back on the past year. Had there ever been more than a day here and th
Ella POVMy contact at the prison told me Hayes followed his script exactly, and for the moment, I decided to put the wolf out of my mind. Few things had ever worked out as nicely as discovering the good doctor’s gambling addiction, and Hayes had several million reasons to do as he was told.When th
Sarah POVThe second Zane and I were in the car, I raised the partition for some privacy, turned to Zane, and asked the question burning acid in my stomach.“Do you think he actually hurt the girls?”Zane shook his head, but his eyes were haunted. “Not physically, but we’ll have to talk to them, see
“We found your money,” I said.“I thought you would.”We sat another few minutes in silence. “So, who was paying you? Who got you to betray my household?”Hayes smiled to himself.“Something funny?”“Do you think I’m some lackey doing someone’s bidding for a few dollars?” he asked, meeting my gaze n