ual lazy grin dropping from his face as a sharper ed

icole's reply came, br

ff-got a date on the clock. Can't keep her w

rt gleam in her eyes gave her away. The memory of what happened five years a

d and grabbed her suitcase, rolling it behin

and stark white. It resembled a showroom-untouched and desolate-far more than a t

uran had prepared, she walked to the bathroom

or, her features appeared flawlessly

layful rebellion. Yet, beneath that shimmer, an iro

nts' embrace; they had vanished from he

s. Marissa had steered her straight toward disaster, and Cathy? Cathy hadn't hesitate

lplessness, but because some stubborn piece of her still longed for her family to see their own cruelty

g her off in marriage as if she were a p

wn to that, she'd

.

shed to meet him, voice low and urgent, ready to rel

ndmother's room and rap

righ

urging Analia to swallow the last bit of medicine. Spott

at cold, wordless stare told Lilah everything she neede

hen popped a chocolate into her mouth as if rewarding herself. She twisted ar

ou're the one who called the Wilsons' little

saved my life. She can help with that condition of yours, too.

dn't pieced together that his grandmoth

oment. "You're aging, Aidan. Time to settle

if it suddenly ached. "Ah, there goes my back again.

amp, casting the room

on, Aidan stepped quiet

"Ms. Wilson's in your bedroom now. Shoul

hadowed eyes giving nothing away as his

head, silently concluding that Aidan intende

Nicole's eyes as she'd brought down the wolf. His gaze grew sha

eally be this

ght, he eased the