Anthony Gotham The click of the guard’s camera flash as it went off left stars in my vision, blinding me to the trickling silver light of the moon as we stood around the small shadowed lot only feet from the bloody clearing. I watched the masked wolf shake out the photo in the Polaroid and slip it cleanly into his Manila bag. “What on earth happened here?” “It looks like there might have been a blood bath, Your Highness, all female…possibly more than one,” Fedora whispered, pointing out the deep tracks of blood staining the porcelain snow that had mixed with black earth. I held my breath, my boots shifting uneasily as I waited for the royal examiners to finish up with the evidence. The council would want a detailed explanation of why I had dragged half our troops from the base for a forest reckon that ended up being a wild fucking goose chase. “Are we done here yet?” I growled, the despair twisting in my chest only doubled when one of the masked wolves held up his thumb for me.

ELENA WOLFEThe buzz of guards striding in and out of the wooden cabin filled the air.The second Alpha had kept true to his word and it worried me.There were hundreds of uniformed Gotham wolves striding in and around the clearing surrounding our safe house and it was all I could do not to pull my hair in frustration.“Come on people, are we getting this wall up or not?!” The rogue roared, and I turned to see the half-finished oak wood door that leaned against the door frame, the shiny brass knob catching the falling rays of the sun almost mesmerizingly.A ton of soldiers and nursemaids had arrived at the safe house after everything that had happened and yet there was still no sign of Michael…no sign of Emily.“Where should I keep this? Your Grace?” One of the pale-faced women in a monochrome milk-maid outfit rasped behind me and I turned to see her holding a thick blue flower vase in her hands.It would go well with the chestnut wood walls of my room.“Up in the attic, please Fiona,

Michael GothamThe weight pressed against my chest when I awoke with a start hardly felt real. Elena. I cursed inwardly.I hadn't imagined sleeping for this long! It was a wonder we weren't woken by Anthony’s raging shouts in the forest.How long had we been out? The ball of desire in my groin tightened when Elena moaned in her sleep, pushing her naked body harder against mine where she had tucked herself into my side.The breath hitched in my throat when I glanced around the dimly lit room, yellowed by the sun that steadily rose over the horizon and fell in slants through the high curtains of the windowed room.The soft sound of her breathing was like a bucket of ice water to my raging chest and I brushed my knuckles over her high, porcelain cheekbones, unable to resist the bond of attraction between us.“Elena?” I whispered, pressing a kiss to her lips before stretching to my feet and watching her screw her eyes open with a deep groan.“Michael? Are you leaving already? At least st

ANTHONY GOTHAMThe trip to the other allying packs was not going well, and the sun had set well over the line of the horizon when we reached the black, ominous mass of slender trees.“This is bad Anthony, damned near all of our allies have defected to Cove. What the fuck is Alaric even giving them? That beast has nothing to offer but pain and more fucking suffering!” Fedora hissed, her black eyes flashing between the cloth mask she wrapped around her face as our horses trotted around the dirt path.I hadn't wanted to think about it, but the woman was right. There were only so many traitors I could kill.Alaric Wolfe’s army was growing too darn close to Gotham and I didn't like it in the least bit.“Power. Isn't it obvious? Every mutt in Wolf County has blood lust the size of the fucking Atlantic!” I spat acidly, raising a hand to stop the march when my ears flexed on the quiet rustling sound coming only a few feet away from us.“Torches out!” I rasped through my teeth and the guard's

ELENA WOLFEThe feel of a large hand brushing over my lips in the darkness made me snap my eyes open.My heart hammered wildly inside me when I met Michael’s wild blue eyes in the dark, hushing me.“Mnghhh,” A moan escaped my throat before I thought to close my teeth around the sound and his eyes grew even wider, hands digging into my mouth until it hurt.What the hell was happening?! The sound of a moan below us made my ears ring in the uneasy silence that filled the room before I shoved him off me, watching as he stumbled back, lifting me in his arms in one swift motion.“Don't breathe a word, Lei,” He rasped, hurriedly throwing on his shirt over the delectable porcelain flesh that rippled in the waning light of the fireplace.“What's happening Michael? You’re fucking scaring me!” I hissed in a shaky voice, but his crystal blue eyes scanned the horizon as he hastily chugged down the large canister of blood in the wine rack, wiping at his lips with the back of his hands and looking e