's

were louder than I'd anticipated

through the trees. "Father, I'm so worried! She just ran

just seeking attention. That girl is a constant embarras

my stomach. His disdai

e made the blood f

rned. Fae is to be a member of the Silver

lt

enough to make my wounded soul recoil. Heidi had outdone herself. She hadn't just brough

ind whispered. The more people

alculating, immediately found the dagger I had planted.

gger?" She scurried forward and picked it

ith fury. Stealing a sacred

is gaze sweeping the clea

" Heidi cried, her voice tre

h a flick of my wrist, tossed it so it landed with a so

an came f

She crept towards the log, a perfect picture of hesitant

Preston, what h

raught still fogging his mind, but the sight of my father and C

his head. "It was Fae... she

a low growl, the sound of an Alpha on the verg

led with the same cold disgust I remembered from m

a triumphant look into the surrounding w

stepped out

rying. I wasn't hysterical. I even allowed a small, detached smile to pla

d turned

shattered. She hadn't expected me

s not what he expected. It was an anomaly in

, beyond my father's shoulder, a pale

gh the damp forest air-lavender, rainwater, and the

ni

come a

northern wall. My moth

and pale beneath the shadows, moving toward the clearing with the terri

a sign where she might find it. But now she was here, and for the fi

embling finger at me. "It was her! She tried to seduce me! When I

ng in the air, th

forward. He raised his hand to strike me. "Yo

d never

wing, held in a gri

face a mask of cold fur