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
Sarah POVTelling Zane I suspected Ella of making Grace feel bad about herself was one of the harder conversations I’d ever had, but it was nothing compared to the task ahead of us: talking to Grace herself.Zane hadn’t wanted to believe me at first, and I kept qualifying things, saying Ella might h
Zane POVSarah and I explained to Chloe that we wanted a little alone time with Grace, and she took it well, saying she wanted to work on her carving in the playroom. We didn’t want to invade Grace’s bedroom with what might become a bad memory, so we ended up in Sarah’s study with the curtains drawn
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