Grey's POV Regret from weakness kept me awake last night. I replayed every moment in my mind in such repetition that I was throbbing until she woke up against me. Each time, I thought of how I should have pulled away and denied my desperations that could cloud her judgment when the memories returne
"He hugged me but it was so cold. He explained it away by saying he didn't want to rush me." I clenched my jaw. Elodie was and always has been an alluring woman. A spitfire that many men would see as a well-worthy challenge, myself included. It would be wishful thinking to imagine Henry didn't touch
Elodie's POV We’ve been sitting here in complete silence for what felt like the last hour. The hallowed ground beneath the car felt like molasses by the time my soles met with the terrain. Stiff and familiar, I began to apply pressure before ultimately leaning back against the grill of the truck. E
"You don't have to do this, Elodie. We can leave here, Chicago, make a life." "What are you afraid of? That it'll be for nothing? That I'll remember even more things about you?" "I'm terrified of what remembering everything that happened to you will do to you. You've been through more than you eve
I motioned for him to open it but he hesitated before pulling the rock off the folded paper and brought it open. His eyes scanned the words in quick strides, some twice over, before he dropped to the floor on his palms and knees. "Grey..." He shrugged me off as tears hit the stone beneath him. Rea
Grey's POV The fever came first followed by the aches rivaling even the worst of injuries or viruses. There would be no antibiotic or medication that would counter the effects of aconitum. Even the touch she attempted to offer me through the bars in my moments of humanity was pushing through only h
"While you were...affected...I remembered something." I swallowed hard. This could be a plethora of things I'd prefer she'd forgotten. "The day we met. In your office. That interview." I cocked my jaw. "I'm curious to know something though..." "Yeah?" "Why didn't you give me a chance that day? It
Elodie's POV I awoke to a crick in my neck as I rose from the cold stone floor to find his eyes immediately locating me through the penumbra around us both. I was thankful for it as it worked in my favor to mask my matted hair and any remaining makeup smeared to appear more like dirt. It did little
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