Sarah POVI rejoined Melissa in her press tour promoting beta and gamma education at Cavendish University, which meant we ended up sharing a dorm room. It was a very nice dorm room, of course, but still, when we decided to order pizza, we had to laugh at the number of options available, from the uni
Zane POVWhitfield texted me the second it went live, and alone in my study I put my earbuds in and went on YouTube.There was an ad I skipped after five seconds.A cute little Chibi of Sarah against a light blue background came up on the screen with the channel name: Let’s Talk!It cut to Sarah, wh
Sarah POVMyTimes32: Booze? Srsly? That’s what she thinks wolves do all day?FiatLuxxe: The girls! I cant even.Dixyland: Her wince at the wolf wine! ROTFL!GinnyWolf: She said wine was just one thing she wanted to talk about for now. It was fun!Rosemary&Sage: Not first to post! Boooo! Good show th
Sarah POVThe emails had started only a few weeks ago, around the same time Melissa and I started making public appearances together.I had told Zane that Scott was emailing me. I even showed him the first two, but they were so innocuous, so dull, he’d told me he trusted me to tell him if anything i
Sarah POVI’ve never been one to sit on a problem, so when Melissa texted me about meeting for a strategy session on the Abrigan Mine, I turned it into a lunch date. I even suggested it be just the two of us when she talked about bringing her publicist.“Should we get pizza again?” she asked, laughi
Sarah POVI knew Ollie would be bringing the girls home soon and put the finishing touches on my ideas for comments I would make at the memorial when the press asked me questions.Zane had thought the idea of attending the memorial together was excellent. Melissa gave me all the credit, which made m
Sarah POVThe day before the memorial, we settled into a suite of rooms in Alpha Erinose’s summer palace. Zane, I, Melissa, and Dr. Hayes had our own bedrooms, and the girls were sharing. Selene had been left at home with Mavis.I was again struck by the opulence of the Pack Alpha’s lifestyle and wa
I looked up to see the girls were both out, and Zane and I smiled at each other before we crept out of their room. Zane nodded before heading to his bedroom, but I stopped at the large window overlooking the grounds. About a quarter-mile away was the square already decorated for the memorial, its pa
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