n P

e door behind them, I rolled off the bed. I close

ny

instantly, cool and com

that can receive a transfer of two hundred thousand silver sovere

only quiet acceptance. "Understood, Miss. I

he funds are in hand. And Anya-this acc

ll be,

n the wall. The girl staring back was thin, her features sharp from years of not having enough to eat

laced. By me. My past life was a blur of concrete and steel, a world away from this. My identity here was a puzzle, a bl

ck came at

me

me years ago out of pity. In reality, she was the only person in this worl

white ceremonial dress. Ch

iss," she murmured, too low for

ic of the dress. It felt like paper against my skin. Anya began to s

eyes in the

softly. "As of today, I

outward. It was a trick I'd learned in the borderlands when you had no pack-link to scream a warni

tatic, and if I concentrated, I could pick out the sharper threads within it-threads laced with fear and fury, all emanat

of the exchange bleeding through his Beta Rhys's panicked mind. The name "Eryn Barber," striking like a hammer on glass. The barely-contained rage

on Ewing had just heard about the s

ands resting on my shoulders. She met my g

a small,

elcoming mood," I said, my voi

ghtened briefly on my shoulders-a silent promise.