On the plus side, it had warmed up somewhat since the caravan had started descending down the mountain, and some of the guards and Guadel who'd made the trip before had started talking about what the lowlands were like. All of the younger members of the caravan, whether guards, Daughters or gurra...
I could hear Celeste breathing in her room, but I didn't disturb her. She wasn't sleeping as much as I was, but she was still sleeping more than normal. I couldn't blame her. Until we were finally granted an audience with the lamia queen there wasn't anything for her to do other than sit around a...
Geoffrey handed me my phone without saying anything, but when I checked the call history the only activity was an inbound call from Rachel. I stacked most of the supplies in the back seat next to Ben and then put the rest of everything in the trunk and climbed back into the car. Just before I tur...
He promised to procure another RV as well as sending a car filled with capable female shape shifters to pick us up at a prearranged location in an hour. Lori gave me a curious look at the timing, but I wasn't going to get into the habit of explaining my every move to her. I asked her to dismiss h...
Then again, my memory was something measured in days rather than months and years like it should have been. What did I really know when it came to 'normal'? Ever since I'd lost my memory, I'd felt out of place, like I didn't really belong with Isaac and the others. The feeling had gotten worse as...
I knew what was bothering her as soon as I got close enough to feel the energy surging out from the rest of the pack. I gently put Adri down as I prepared for the coming battle. I vaguely heard the girls apologize to each other, but couldn't focus on anything other than keeping my beast from tear...
Spanish was both better and worse. Better because without Alec sitting six feet away from me I was able to kind of think about something other than him, worse because we had a pop quiz and I barely placed in the A- range despite having spent a fair amount of time on my vocabulary. Math was plain ...
She'd noticed it was Alec who dropped me off rather than Rachel or Jasmin. I could tell she wasn't entirely buying my story about him having met us at the hospital, but she let me break past and go to my room. Just before I went to bed I got a single text from Jasmin. Ben? ** I woke up about noon...
I didn't think something like that was humanly possible."I shrugged uncomfortably as I slipped my vest back on. "You'd be amazed what's possible with the right training and enough adrenaline flowing through your system. Now let's get moving before somebody shows up and sees all of these bodies."W...
I remembered talking to Carson, remembered walking back to our SUV with Brindi still in my arms, but I didn't remember coming back to Rio Rico. Even odder, I couldn't think of any reason for Brindi to be here with me, but she was. Not only that, she wasn't injured anymore. It wasn't just the fact...
Juan filled us in on what we needed to know about the operation and then we were bundled into a helicopter. Most of the attack force was traveling via the ubiquitous black SUVs that seemed to be the mainstay of transportation for the wolves deployed on the border, but our ...
Cindi didn't even stir when I left our room. Apparently she and Mom had been out really late. Things weren't pretty when I got out to the living room. The pile of camping gear that Dad had spent the evening putting together had mostly disappeared into two large blue backpacks, but Mom was sitting...
I debated for several seconds and then finally tore open the envelope. The contents read like something out of a spy movie. Cash, lots of cash actually, maybe thirty thousand dollars. Another gun, two passports, one for me, one for him. Ammunition, a knife, driver's licenses, and two cheap-lookin...
It felt odd to be doing something so mundane while my parents and sister were being held by a bunch of blood-sucking parasites, but I was a lot more worried about going to sleep than I'd let on a few minutes earlier with Taggart and Isaac. A shower wasn't going to magically wipe away the fact tha...
He'd been right to yank me up short when I'd torn into Alec, but that didn't make it any easier to deal with. I knew that he was just trying to keep me from saying anything I would end up regretting later, but the truth was that for months now I'd thought that Taggart had my back no matter what. ...
There are at least half a dozen wolves there who would jump ship if given half a chance. We need to go down to New Orleans in force and get them out of there." Adri had communicated Ash's request several days ago, but apparently Ash had decided to ignore my gentle hints that now wasn't the time t...
That would all be bad enough for a normal 17-year-old, but it's even worse for Alec Graves. A shape shifter's pack, his family, is the only thing stopping the other preternatural creatures out there from killing them. Alec's pack isn't just neglectful, he's pretty sure that his father wants him d...
We'd more or less recovered from the challenger who had almost killed James and me. James was still pissed at me, but Jaclyn had agreed to leave her people here for another few days to give me time to try and bring James around. Dominic was actively trying to calm him down too, but unfortunately ...