Eva For the past few hours, all I could think about was Nox and the tale he shared with me. I was overcome with the need to talk to Cyrus about it and ask him why he doubted Nox so much. Why would Nox separate himself from his family and come all the way here for revenge if he wasn’t sure of my father’s involvement in the death of his parents? It was clear that it hurt him, especially when he mentioned it.Why didn’t Cyrus ever look into it? Or did he?I had to say that I believed Nox. I didn’t think he was lying. I understood why he wanted to kill me. He was angry enough to want to cause Kolton pain regardless of who would pay the price. I now imagined that almost everyone here probably endured the same kind of pain as he. Kolton truly was a terrible person, and I hated it when everyone referred to him as my father. This all made me think about my mother—what could she have gone through to run away and abandon me in front of that Convent? It must have been horrible to force her to

Nox I was over the moon with this new development in our plan. For years, we'd been trying to do this and failed. The tricky part with this plan was that we couldn't show up at the restaurant so frequently that we'd be regarded as 'regulars'. Having that label would make Kolton suspicious of us because he was the regular here. He came here every single night for dinner with his closest pack members. Sometimes, his daughter would be with him. Tonight, she wasn't. So, we had to space out our visits and must of the time, Ursula was unable to catch someone's eye and make a gesture for him to follow her to the bathroom. Tonight was different, however. Before I realized it, she'd gotten up and left. And when she returned, she gave my leg a light kick and we were up. I still couldn't believe that she did it. We were all crammed in the car. My mind was racing so much that I had momentarily forgotten about Eva. Ursula mentioned something about how Eva wasn't supposed to be here, and now I

Cyrus I wished I could say that the days got better as they went by but that would be a complete lie. To sleep was near impossible. I spent most of my nights awake, sometimes just walking around the house and hoping she’ll magically appear on my front step. Eva disappeared into thin air, it seemed. Nobody had seen her, not after she left the town center that night, at least. Kolton was still searching for her but it didn’t matter how full of shit he was about his own capabilities. He couldn’t find her. Some people had started suggesting checking in the rivers and lakes. I punched the man who suggested this out of pure rage and despair. Checking around those areas would imply that Eva died. I couldn’t handle that. I refused to believe that. Where else could she have been?Vivian suggested that she might have just upped and left. A lot about Eva’s character suggested that she was sick and tired of us. Of me. And they believe that she simply left. That was only because they didn’t

Eva I didn’t want to ask Kyra to send for Nox so we could have our serious conversation, so I walked around the warehouse for about half an hour hoping to stumble across him so we could talk. That didn’t happen. Instead, I received odd looks from people, especially those I came across a second time. I felt sick with anxiety. I wanted to talk to him so I could get this out of the way. I was letting things get too far and it was my job to tell him where the line had to be crossed. What happened last night could ever again repeat itself. Nox and I couldn’t be a romantic pair, but because of this bond, we both wanted it. However, we had to fight against it regardless of how we felt because my heart belonged to another. And that man happened to be his brother. Eventually, I had to stop. I was so overwhelmed with everything that happened last night that I could hardly think straight and I kept bumping into people. Sometimes, into walls. I kept looking for a few more minutes before deci

Eva Nox and I left right away. I didn’t feel safe, not even when we were in the car and driving away from the café. I had this feeling like I was exposed, being followed, or something similar. “So, you’re saying that woman tried to kill you? Why?”“They were rogues and formed this pack near Silver Crescent. I don’t remember their name. She was the Luna, and the man next to her was the Alpha’s brother, I believe. He came into my room one day, scared me, and Cyrus just attacked him. This caused problems, naturally, and the next thing we knew, they bombed the gates down and took me into the woods. A man tried to drown me. She got away. Cyrus tried to follow them to bring justice but they’d gone to—”I hated as I tried to remember what he’d said exactly. I couldn’t. “They’d crossed someone’s territory. Cyrus couldn’t go there or something. He feared conflict.”Nox nodded somberly. “Did they see you?”I sighed. “I hope not. It’ll be terrible if they did.”“Well, we’re not being followed