Grey's POV To touch her skin again with permittance made me question if I had made it beyond the gates of heaven and past my mortal sins. If this were my sanctuary, she wouldn't be looking at me with such uncertainty. There remained a hesitancy behind her gaze. For it, I knew she had simply saved m
"You have claws and you're strong...we can heal each other...Are you a...I don't even know what that would be." "I'm an alpha, Elodie. Your alpha. And you're my Luna..." She began to nod as if understanding the name I'd hinted to her since I knew she survived. I was relishing in the way she accepte
Elodie's POVMy eyes closed faster than I wanted for being in the clutches of a murderer. Of the lies they may have told me about him, this was proven as fact. The bloodied shirt itself remained in sight until my eyes became too exhausted to keep open. And what should have been dreams of nightmares
"I won't let that happen, but I have to go first and you have to follow right behind. I can hear them..." "Who-" Just as I attempted to ask, I could hear steps making their way towards our room. Not one set that could be easily missed, but what could have been estimated to have been dozens. When
Grey's POV I kept our pace until we came to a spot where I no longer heard any potential danger surrounding us. Absent cop cars and threatening animals, I stationed a pause a small distance away from a rustling lake for ambiance as well as use. Downloading the bag against a tree, I began to evaluat
"Is there something you want to ask me?" Her toes stopped their incessant pattern I recalled hearing from my office the first day I was destined to meet her. She seemed to theorize the choices for a second before closing the book without a mark and crossing her arms over her chest before reclining o
"W-was i-i-it p-poison-nous?" She shook through her words as I recalled the details of the snake. A copperhead. Without treatment, there would be undeniable pain. Her symptoms wouldn't show a peak until twenty-four hours, but I didn't want her to have to worry about that. I could eradicate it now,
Elodie's POV I could feel his eyes on me from the second mine closed and opened again. Avoiding a shift that he'd know I was waking up, I tried to focus on the hatred I had for him in opposition to the gratitude. The memory of him removing the toxin with his mouth was the cause for a sweet and erot
Grey's POV “I had this entire plan to go to dinner and then the boardwalk. I’d even rehearsed what to say at least a thousand times today…But I realized that when you’ve lived through what we have, the promises were already there. To me, a ring a no ring, yes or a no, my heart is and always will be
Elodie's POV SIX MONTHS LATER I'd already been waiting three hours after his meeting and my patience was too thin to test. He'd been acting shifty all day, almost as if he was hiding something. In fact, I knew he had been with the way he shuffled away from me whenever I tried to look at the screen
"I swear to God if I survive this I am going to become a demanding girlfriend." I grinned at the title she gave herself that I loved hearing, even in anger. Maybe even more so. "I will do everything with a smile. Now please, baby, you have to go." She sighed before standing. Leaning over me with a
Grey's POV I wasn't lying when I told her it was a risk. Not only to dance with death but in the return. Knowing if I were to wake as a human that it would be without the strength needed to protect her from the elements now out of my control, I felt more vulnerable than being formerly encaged in si
"It was a risk, but I had a feeling it would pay off to bet on you.""What are talking about?""Kinsey explained how she was able to become a human after I killed her the first time. Tied to Aslan's line, he gave his life as Alden had done for you. Since you were the one to kill me...I was able to c
Elodie's POVI never wanted to be one of those girls dependent on anyone. But losing someone like Grey Alluna was as if the sky no longer held stars, the gravity was purposeful but hollow in my heart and my head, and the oxygen I was forced to take was more painful than needed. I took mindless step
"Now, I'm giving you your punishment." I came down on her as I had done over a decade ago, teeth sinking into her neck, as she whimpered beneath me. When she would awaken again, it would be in a transition once again. Born a wolf, she never had to feel that painful shift between human and beast, the
Grey's POV It wasn't the abrupt silence of the crowd or the taste of the blood fading from my tongue that returned me to my humanity. It wasn't even the pull of her pleas dragging that part of me to the surface in a painful lurch. It was the sound of her heart accepting death without regret. The wa
"You smell so sweet." His voice had even changed. Where a smokiness existed behind some words now came a thick brutality. It was almost demonic. "How I've never fed on you before is a wonder I won't force myself to take for much longer. But I like a chase..." He released me with my broken hand and