Sarah POVZane warned me about Scott, but I didn’t realize how much he was downplaying his half-brother’s less desirous qualities, to put it mildly. Actually, he gave me the creeps, and I can’t help but think that if I’d been told about Scott, if I’d met him before Zane and I announced our engageme
Zane POVIn my years of visiting the Luna Temple, I had never been invited to explore the grounds. When Sarah and I presented ourselves at the gate, however, an Oracle was waiting along with the two priests. She nodded to us and gestured for her to follow us not to the temple itself, but to a path t
Sarah POV“She’s back,” Grace told me.Frowning, I turned away from my desk and the paperwork on it to see Grace standing in the doorway of my office. Behind me now, a breeze blew in the open French doors, and I smelled jasmine. It was jarring to see with this the frown on my little girl’s face.“Wh
She reached into her bag and brought out a dress box with some French sprawled over the lid. She put it down in front of Chloe with a flourish.“Now, I bought this a little big because you’re growing so fast, but there are ways to make dresses a little tighter and not much you can do once a dress is
Zane POV“Now that the little mermaid knew where the prince lived, she spent many an evening and many a night on the water near the palace. She would swim much nearer the shore than any of the others had ventured, and once she went up the narrow channel under the marble balcony, which threw a broad
I wanted her in my life permanently, helping me to raise the girls and lead the pack. The girls and the pack deserved her, and I wanted to believe I did as well.I stayed away from the poppy garden and the hedge maze and stuck to the main path over to the lake. I noticed the moon was almost new, the
Ella POVMy body was not a temple, but it was my meal ticket, my golden meal ticket.So, I made sure to pamper my body to the point of diminishing returns. This included my skin, hair, nails, muscle tone, and cardio. An important part of my body care was a daily bath.Sometimes, by necessity, it was
Sarah POVIt was lovely to see Melissa again, even though I envied her with the passion of a thousand suns and all that. She looked incredibly smart and chic in a wool pencil skirt and trim leather jacket of the exact same burgundy color that looked like Oscar de La Renta. I was glad I’d worn Gucci
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