“Jesse,” I groan, stumbling forward and knocking my hand hard against his shoulder, making him fall back a step and laugh. “If you go to pieces on me, I’m going to kill you! And trust me, the Deadlands is not a nice place, okay? So, save us both the trouble.”“Yes ma’am, yes ma’am,” he murmurs, glan
“Jesse Sinclair,” I snap. “You’d better not be sleeping with that girl.”“Oh my god,” he groans, tilting his head back to the sky. “Why does everyone think that I would do that!?”“Just because she’s your mate does not give you any right to her in that way! She is an innocent, and she has been abuse
“Oh, you love it, and teach it about Darkness and the art of shadows,” Midnight says, nodding beneficently like it is very easy and lovely.“Where does it sleep?” Laila asks.Midnight just looks at her like she’s insane. “On…the floor?”“Who takes care of it?” Anton queries next.“I don’t know,” Mid
“Orion,” I say, crossing my own arms and frowning at him, mad again. “You have the power to call up anything, instantly, at your fingertips. And you seriously couldn’t have done this for her before?”“Easy, June,” Jesse murmurs, and I snap my head to him, surprised that he’s the one protesting. Jess
The four of us spend most of the day lounging on the couch, pleasantly buzzed off red wine, watching movies.Or, more accurately, Orion and Laila watch movies, and Anton and I watch them.“They’re so cute,” I murmur, leaning close to my ghost and idly slipping some popcorn into my mouth.“Technologi
A growl hums in my chest as I narrow my eyes at my handmaid. “Don’t you go falling in love with her,” I snap. “You know that’s forbidden.”Anton’s face bursts into his beautiful smile – the bright, happy one I can never resist returning. “You’re so cute when you’re jealous.”I snarl, flashing my tee
Soldiers carry two caskets ahead of me into the Goddess’s temple, but I only keep my eyes fastened on the one that holds the body of the only man I’ve ever loved. The only man I’ve ever kissed, even. I was supposed to marry him today. The wolf in my soul raises her snout to the sky and gives a l
My breath pants from my lips as the wind and darkness rips around us. We only travel for a few terrifying moments before my feet hit hard against stone and light returns to the world, however dim. I groan in horror at what I see – at the black sky that stretches for miles in all directions over t