Sarah POVI was hoping to see Zane when I got to the villa, but Hans told me he was upstairs lying down. I supposed the visit to the temple had been strenuous and/or frustrating. I changed out of my shopping clothes into jeans and a nice top, wondering if I wanted to give the girls the model right a
Sarah POVI had left Zane alone for three days after his trip to the temple, and then, to my relief, his eyes were clearer the next morning, and after breakfast and kissing the girls goodbye for school, he didn’t disappear into his study or take the car out, so I made us a little extra coffee, and w
Sarah POVI squirmed a little. “Once or twice.”He was silent for a moment. “Can you remember any details of these dreams?”I thought about it for a moment, and then I described the forest, which felt familiar and comfortable. I talked about the way the moonlight seemed to make the moonlight sparkle
Sarah POV“Fifty thousand dollars?” Zane asked, leaning back in the large chair behind his desk.Travis nodded, taking a file from Alicia Wetmore with a just slightly lingering gesture that rang a clear bell in my head. Well, she was an alpha and he was a beta, but he was just about the most alpha-i
Sarah POVIt was the night before Zane and I had a parent-teacher conference set up at the girls’ school, so we visited them together to say goodnight and ask if they had any worries.“What are you going to talk about?” Chloe wanted to know.“About the two of you, of course,” Zane said. “How you’re
We stopped at the art display first, and there was Grace’s painting with the #2 ribbon next to it.I easily recognized the lake from the park, but instead of a sunny day and picnic, it was evening, and a thin crescent moon was glowing like a scimitar in the darkening sky. It was technically impressi
Sarah POVI woke up to the strangest smell, thickly pungent and raw. It was night, and I had been sleeping deeply, but now I was instantly alert.My first thought as I threw off the covers was that the villa was on fire. But there were no smells of wood burning or that horrible, acrid stench of pain
Sarah POVArcoNova: What a waste of a petty garden. The poppies weren’t hurting anybody.Diamonds&Purlies: So, yet another anti-human pack of wolves has decided to destroy something beautiful in the name of, what? Wolf purity? The moon? How messed up in the head do people have to become to think thi
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