om her at breakfast, something we usually share in her own suite as she prefers it that way. Colton slides me the platter of pancak

e air; faint, but it was there. Just out beyond the perimeter." Colton dishes me some and throws me that soft smile, that translates to 'I lov

, bacon and eggs I insisted I was dying for this morning. My appetite has been huge

mpires do not. I guess they hope an alliance means they get to come out of the shadows to live free once more. Too many witches have been slaughtered and gone into hiding for hundreds of years." Sierra picks up her

s in my stomach and I glance to Colton, who for once is not all that interested in his food. He's pushing his bacon around with disinter

. We're a smaller pack, an easy target. I guess it's why we've had so many attacks in recent weeks. The vampires are trying to pick off the smaller of our kind before we unite to se

for a mate she hates but can't be unbound from, and a life she lost that she can't go backwards to. Her unhappiness has been growing in the last months, the longer we live this

eyes on his mom and I can tell he too feels her underlying lack of vavoom today. He won't push her

orcerer and made sure this house would withstand magic of any kind that was not borne within from blood. We can use ours, we can freely come

dary, and nothing gets through?" I raise my brow, finding some peace in that. The first boundary line

nothing gets in, even if the vampires stray close. We still have to patrol though as our power lines, telephone cables all rout

we know more about what they intend to do." Colton places his fork down and frowns off outside the large double window of the veranda, staring at the looming presence of the distant forest and mountain

at him softly, knowing that's what he'll do for the good

ning and instant heavy cold fills the atmosphere around us. I flicker my eyes his way in question

from me. It's not how we are. He tells me everything and vic

that subtle frown appearing on his brow makes me wonder how bad it can be. Simmering my internal pang of betrayal momentarily. Colton is r