MattI got into the car with my luggage, unable to shake the look on Lucy’s face. Tony climbed in next to me and with pensive look on his face. “You too?”Tony nodded. “I’m not sure what it is, but there’s something wrong.”Matt huffed. “This would be so much easier if we could just… link with her.”Tony bobbed his head before glancing into the front seat where the driver was seated. “We’ll deal with it when we get back.” Tony sat back in his seat with a sigh. “For now, we just need to get through this conference.”“Do we really have to talk about this?” Matt asked. “It’s like they think that the more often they talk about it, the more likely it is for us to agree.”“That is likely their hope, but it’s more than that,” Tony said. “Holding a conference like this so soon after we’ve been mated is a political move to make us lose our shit, so watch yourself.”I scoffed. “I’ll be too bored to get angry. Watch.”“Or too busy daydreaming,” Tony sighed. “Do you think we pushed her too hard

TonyI stared Peter in the face, waiting for him to push or say something more out of line. This was the usual course of events, but usually Peter was a little more subtle about it. I tried to reign in the irritation that was rippling through me. The glow of his eyes was a challenge. He had most of the room eating out of the palm of his hand as one of the oldest people in the room, but Matt and I had never bowed our heads. “Is that because your new mate is from the human world?”A ripple of murmuring filled the air and I realized what this was really about. “Our mate has no family in the human world,” he said. “She was lost and now we’ve brought her back to where she belongs. Our lack of interest in war has more to do with being sensible humans rather than deranged wolves.”Peter’s eyes glinted. I smiled, feeling a little smug. “We’ve already seen exactly what the kind of trouble you cause has brought us: witch hunts. Or do we all need a history lesson?”More people cleared their t

PeterPoison.It was the first thing that came to mind when I heard whoever Matt was speaking to talking about Lucy. It was truly the only thing that would make sense as any werewolf within the house would have heard a gunshot and smelled freshly spilled blood. Slow-acting perhaps, maybe not. Effective. Ruthless. And oddly personal. Whoever did it wanted Lucy to suffer until the last breath had left her. Maybe it was one the twins’ old lovers.Perhaps it had been one of their old pack members who had joined Black Moon. My lips almost twitched into a smile as I ran my thumb over the smooth surface of Lucy’s hairpin in my pocket. I wasn’t worried, exactly. Poison, for the most part, tended to cause some discomfort, but unless they had used wolfsbane, it was unlikely to kill her, even if she was a half breed.Whoever was behind this had been within the Blue Moon Pack. As I had not given the order, I supposed it was someone who was working for the Blood Moon Pack. Little David had more sp

MattI was dizzy, but I kept running in the direction Tony told me to. I could barely make out the shape of leaves beneath me, let alone the trees. I was so dizzy with blood loss. It was only pure will and Tony’s voice in my head that was keeping me going. I wish I could help more, but I had lost too much blood. We ran for what felt like too long, using our enhanced speed to thin them out. Tony would take care of the few who managed to catch up with us as they came, giving me some time to rest in between bursts of running at top speed.I stumbled as my stomach lurched and the world started to spin. I heard Tony tearing a werewolf apart and sunk my head into the river, drinking from it in hopes that it would help. The wound in my side was closed, but it wasn’t leaking as much blood as it had been earlier. Still, my fur was mostly red from the blood leaking from the wound on my back. Tony came back and rushed past me. I ran after him, shaking off the dizziness as much as I could. The c

TonyI paced. I hated. Every step I took felt like I was losing control, but I couldn’t help it. It was either this or murdering my entire pack. I tried not to think of the row of graves that weren’t even a decade old as I pushed my instincts to pick up something. But there wasn’t even a trace that she had ever been here. I looked up at the window of the luna’s chambers and tried to breathe through my fury. This can’t go on. I told Matt as he came up to stand beside me. I can feel my control slipping. “We’ll find her,” Matt said. “If we can just figure out how she could have been taken from the estate without anyone knowing…”If they’re all in on it because she’s only a half breed…“We can’t jump to that conclusion yet,” Matt said, wincing. “I really hate being the voice of reason.”Tony snorted. Can you feel her at all?He winced at the question. Matt’s shoulders slumped. “I… Tony, I couldn’t ever feel her.”I nodded stiffly. Me either.I couldn’t feel her even when we were nearby