Month: December 2025

Rowan settle on the floor beside Kai, angling my body to let the maximum light from the torch illuminate the wound. The shaft is broken and there isn’t much of a tail left to grab onto. I pull the fabric away from the incision to get a better look at what we are dealing with—only

Chapter 28 Rowan ai is injured. We’ve been captured. There is no way out. The reality of our situation keeps repeating itself in my head over and over as the mercenaries grab Kai and me, strip away our weapons and escort us from the rooftops under guard. I search the shadows for any sign of

Chapter 27 Kai catch Rowan just as she starts to fall, my arms wrapping around her reflexively as my mind whirls to try and work out what just happened. One moment she was fine, getting her feet under her after Logan’s jump, and the next she was falling down, fully and suddenly unconscious. Her body

Chapter 26 Rowan o, what are the odds that a day of travel has put you in a forgiving mood?” Logan asks, crouching beside me as I lay my bedroll under a canopy of gnarled oak branches. Consistent with its generally mocking mood, the weather is perfectly clear and warm for this time of autumn,

Chapter 25 Rowan here you two are,” Kai’s ice blue eyes sweep over us like glacial shards. He is dressed as he always is, in a black uniform with knives sheathed all along his lithe body, the dust and grime of the outdoors somehow making him look even more primal and attractive than usual. A

Chapter 24 Rowan walk through the woods toward the sound of whimpers. It’s night and I’m barefoot. I don’t know why I left my bed in answer to a phantom pull, but I always do. The pull is familiar. It has always been familiar, even that first time. But now I know how this ends,

Chapter 23 Kyrian anic flushes through me as I take Rowan’s weight, her head lolling against my chest. “Rowan.” I shake her gently, then more firmly when she doesn’t respond. Her face is pale, her lips tinged blue. I check her pulse, relief flooding me when I feel the steady beat beneath her chilled skin.

Chapter 22 Kyrian f Logan is scouting, shouldn’t he circle back to tell us what he’s found?” Rowan asks for the third time as we trudge through the rain, which runs rivers along our oiled cloaks. She isn’t believing a word I say to explain Logan’s absence, and I have all of zero ideas of

Chapter 21 Rowan ‘m beyond dazed, my body rag doll tired and satisfied as I lie on the bedroll and look at the star filled sky. The night forest lives on around us with the scent of pine and earth, which now mixes with Kyrian and Logan’s very male musk. My eyes are heavy with

Chapter 20 Kyrian want to be Rowan’s first. I want it more than I’ve wanted anything in a long time, even if I know that this evening is nothing but a one-time thing. Not a casual hookup, because anything with Rowan is anything but casual, but it’s physical. Her body wants me, I can feel