No visits. No phone calls. No birthday or Christmas cards for Elva. It wasn’t the first time she had gone dark on me, but this time the circumstances were much different. I was caring for her child, the one she had been so desperate to rescue when she’d called me. Whether the underground organiz
The breath punched from my lungs. Linda maybe hadn’t eavesdropped on everything, but she had definitely heard that Nicholas and I had once dated. “I imagine that information would be quite problematic if it was to be publicly known.” With a sway of her hips, Linda sauntered closer. Problematic w
Linda was not that person. Yet… the King’s threats kept me from saying as much. “That’s not the way the world works, Piper. At least not within the palace walls.” He faced the balcony railing, and looked out into the darkness. “If playing this game with Linda keeps you and Elva here and safe, th
“No,” Nicholas said. Julian, still bowing, shot him a glare. “I wasn’t asking you, brother. In case that wasn’t obvious.” “She will not dance with you, because she is about to dance with me,” Nicholas said. Julian straightened upright. “Is that what was happening here? Because, to me, it appea
I ignored that comment. “Now that he knows, maybe we can include him in our investigation into the underworld.” Julian hummed like he was considering it, but his ‘no’ came out very definitive. Like he’d only pretended to think about it for my sake. Had he thought about this before? If so, he’d lik
The next morning, a knock came early on the bedroom door. Fortunately, Elva and I had risen with the dawn and were already dressed. Expecting the nanny, I headed for the door, yet when I drew it open, the person on the other side surprised me. “Nicholas. What are you doing here?” Behind him, M
“How do you plan on getting to this mansion you mentioned?” I asked, once we were out in the hall. Julian’s Beta, Brian, fell in step behind us. “We can’t take that flashy car again, if we actually want to keep it secret this time.” “It would be too conspicuous to drive. Even if we escaped the gro
I pushed the horse as fast as she could go. My wolf was here, I could feel it. But then, suddenly, it felt further away. It was leaving me! In the driveway beyond the house, a car started to drive away. I pulled at the reins, guiding the horse in that direction. Faster, faster. We were going t