Chapter 31 - Bare Moira burst into my room carrying a large pile of cloth that seemed to be in every color and style. Her face wash flushed as if she had been sprinting through the castle, as she struggled under the weight of the fabric in her arms. “We have four hours to get you ready for dinner. That’s not nearly enough time.” She huffed at me, and threw the pile over the large couch in front of the fire place. I rolled my eyes, and reached out to rub a particularly ugly green colored fabric between my fingers. “I don’t feel the need to impress the king.” I replied more sharply than intended. It was the truth though; forget his rules of formal clothing, I would much rather stir his pot than entertain his ideas. Moira glared back at me; obviously in no mood to deal with my black cloud. “Remember that that we need-“ Moira started.“We need to keep up our front, ye

Chapter 33 - Run A loud bang erupted through the dining room, and the eye contact between the king and I was broken as we turned to see that Devin had slammed his fists into the table. Dark red wine spilled over the bare wood as the glass chalices toppled over. One rolled to the end of the table, smashing to ground, sending crystal shards spraying in all directions against the gold flecked marble floor. “I AM NOT A WOLF!” Devin snarled, and kicked his chair away from him, sending it flying back into one of the awaiting guards who managed to catch it with a loud grunt. He lifted his arm to point a shaking finger towards me, his blue and brown eyes flashing in anger. “She, is not my mate. She’s barely-“ Devin’s words were lost when a loud hiss sounded at the front of the room. We all turned our heads just in time to see a bright white light encase the entire dining area, followed by a loud earth-shattering boom.&nbs

Chapter 35 - Wolf Everything moved in slow motion as Keagan began to open his eyes. Simon slammed the brakes on the car, swerving us to the right of the highway, and coming to a dead stop on the side of the road. The sudden deceleration causing me to jerk backwards into the car seat, as the tires screeched across the slick blacktop.Moira’s door flew open and she jumped from the car, moving herself as far from the wolf as possible, as Simon ripped himself out from the driver’s seat. Leaving the driver’s door open as he scrambled from the car and into the cool night air. I stayed where I was though, frozen in time, as I watched the drowsiness visibly clear from Keagan’s mind. His molten gold eyes sharpening as he began to realize that he was not only far from home, but now surrounded by strangers. I didn’t have enough time to react as those liquid eyes slid to me, and he let out a low and dangerous gr

Chapter 37 – Gas Station The drive went by quickly as Moira and Keagan caught up on their separated lives. We laughed as Keagan told us about the first time he shifted when he was fourteen, describing how he had woken up with his room torn to shreds, and tufts of blond fur strewn across his floor. Keagan told Moira about the times her mother had come to visit him, and how she used whatever power she had to protect him as he learned to control his wolf throughout his early teens. He said that Ginger had studied all she could on werewolves to try and help him, and while he knew the basics because of her, he still had no idea what it was like to be in a pack, and had never actually met another werewolf besides his mother who had died long before he even knew what he was. I watched as tears shined in Moira’s’ soft brown eyes as she fought to hold them in, her emotions running high as they talked about the past. Beyond the sadness though, I knew Moi

Chapter 39 - Light “I cannot be a queen of a bunch of monsters.” I laughed out loud, waiting for Simon to cast me some sort of smirk showing that he was just messing with me. When his face remained sharp as stone though, fear began to raise its angry tendrils through my chest. “I barely got away from them before, and you think I’m going to be able to control all of them?” My soft soprano rose to a high pitch at the end, proving my discomfort with the situation. Flashes of being pulled away in the cave by Moira pushed themselves to the forefront of my mind, all of them scrambling to get at me, long claws extended towards us. I shivered involuntarily, unable to get the disturbing images to stop their pillage through my brain. “I mean, they came after Moira and I. They would have absolutely killed me if they got ahold of me.”“I actually don’t think that’s the case.” Moira’s mousy voice