“You should be out there, you know.” Corinne murmured, her eyes fixed on the window, but her head resting on Hunter's chest and her arms around his waist, as if he were her life raft "I know yesterday's meeting with the pack to reveal everything about William It was more tense and difficult than you told me. I'm sure the wolves need their Alpha there, to support them.”“I've had enough of all this shit, after spending hours telling the pack everything Owen and Ellen ever wanted to hide. Probably now what they want most from me is distance, to be able to absorb all of this.” Hunter tried to hide the pain in his voice, but he couldn't, not when she was the one listening “Besides, no matter what happens, I will always be with my mate first, especially when she needs me. Don’t you want me around?” He left a trail of kisses on her face, making her let out a sad little laugh. “Or are you still afraid that rumors about us being mates will spread?” he joked, although his tone was anythi

“You…” Hunter’s voice was hesitant, but his touch was firm and greedy as he ran his hands down her spine, until he found her ass and pulled her up, lifting them both at the same time. “Are you sure about this?” Hunter wrapped his thumbs in her panties, pulling the fabric slowly until she was totally naked before his hungry eyes."Yes I am." She smiled, pulling him close and spreading her legs, which immediately made Hunter hasten to tear off his own pants, showing off that hard cock that made her salivate eagerly for his taste. “I wanted to wait because I wanted it to be a special moment for us… But now I realize that as long as you are with me, it will be special anyway.” Corinne wrapped her thighs around his waist, making them both gasp as his cock brushed her pussy. “I want to feel completely right now and have your mark on me. Just like I want to leave my mark on you.” She lifted herself just enough to lick his neck, making Hunter shiver like he was close to having an o

“Declan!” Corinne didn't even think before tearing the strip of fabric she had in her hands, running to where her little brother had just fallen to the ground, looking very weak “Declan! Are you okay?! Declan!”As she held his tiger's body, supporting his hanging neck and weak body, Hunter, Eli and Juliet also came running to her, getting Declan's blood on their knees as they knelt beside them.“Oh, my baby... I’m so glad you’re awake...” Juliet cried, gently running her hands through her son’s fur. “But why did you rush here like that? All your wounds are open again...” as she took a closer look at Declan's condition, her eyes widened with terror. “Oh, my...”“These cuts are all recent.” Eli growled, his eyes blazing with fury. “Who did this to you, Declan? Who dared to touch my son twice?”“Isn’t it obvious?” Joseph snapped, seeming more concerned about glaring at Corinne than helping to help Declan. “That girl certainly sent some of her wolves to finish off her ow

Unfortunately, for Corinne, looking at that woman was still like looking in a mirror and seeing herself so perfectly that was like a nightmare. One of the few differences between the two was Seraphina's curly hair, which was now cut to her waist, still shining like gold, without even a single strand of white hair to betray the passing of the years.The only detail that kept her from looking like she came straight out of 18 years in the past was the right half of her face, dark and contorted with deep burn scars running down her neck and, apparently, that entire side of her body, including the back of the hand that she still held up.And, of course, those turquoise eyes, cold and cruel, were still exactly the same ones that Corinne saw in her nightmares when she was a child.“You...” Eli was the first to react, his voice sounding more angry than intimidated. “You should be dead!”“A race as inferior as yours may have hindered my plans all these years ago, but you woul

“Are we really going to do this?”“She is still the sorceress’s daughter! We may be about to make a big mistake…”“But she was able to cure Declan and he no longer appears to be under the sorceress's possession. If Joseph had treated her well and achieved the same fate...”"That's right! If we're going to fight Seraphina again, our best option is to have a sorceress on our side, too.”“I still don’t think we should. She may have escaped being condemned at trial, but we have already seen that one of Seraphina's children was able to rebel against her own kind. Why wouldn’t the other one be?”“And she lied to us all these years about not being a