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 POVTravis had called an emergency late-night meeting, so all of us except for Zane, me, Whitfield, and Wilson were on Zoom. Zane had to make the customary opening statements, even though we weren’t any sort of official group, but then he let Travis take over.“Dr. Louis Calvert is dead,” he a