“Is she in denial?” Jude whispered to his fathers. “Of what?” Kai said. “Of the danger we’re facing? She saw Lilith and her army, and now she wants to pretend like they don’t exist? Or is it because of the grief of losing Dad?” “I don’t know, Jude,” Alaric whispered. “I think it’s complicated. I
“Thank you, Liam,” Alaric said. “We’ll keep you updated.” “Alphas, what do you want to do about coordinating refugees from the east?” Liam said. “Let’s keep that off her plate,” Kai said. “Let’s plan on keeping everything off her plate.” Lyall stepped up. “We know the routine. We can pick up the
Eventually, Kai and Alaric took Thea to their room for the night. She headed to their bathroom, stripping as she went. They joined her in the shower, slowly approaching her. “Thank you for keeping people away from me today,” she said. “No problem, darling.” Kai kissed her forehead and ran his han
It took them a long time to fall asleep, but they had steamy dreams once they did. Until they realized they weren’t dreaming. Thea was panting, half-asleep, horny, and on top of Alaric, straddling him. “Get naked,” she said, then rolled off him. She crawled over to Kai and sprawled her body over
Alaric answered the call. “Okay, my love. Okay. Come here. Come here.” He tugged on her shoulder to pull her down onto his chest, and he made sure he had a firm grip on Conri’s mark. Kai responded a moment later. “Yeah, okay, darling. We got you.” He committed to holding Conri’s mark. Thea let go
Someone knocked on their bedroom door early to drop off their mourning clothes Doris had made for them. Thea’s mourning dress was black with metallic silver and a little bit of turquoise. Conri’s mark was on full display. Kai’s and Alaric’s were on partial display. Their clothes were plain black sui
“Our queen won’t be joining us here this morning or for the immediate future,” Liam said to the people in the packed war room the next morning. “I think we can all agree she needs some time off to grieve. She was past due for some R and R anyway. It gives us an opportunity to get a headstart. We hav
Thea turned around and wrote on the other side of the whiteboard. HOPE 1: LILITH DOESN’T COME WITH HER ARMY TO FIGHT US “We can fight an army,” Thea said. “If they continue the way they’ve been going, one pack at a time, and Lilith doesn’t venture out of the Underworld, we can prepare for that. Y