d her appetite was. She should’ve figured her

or in pairs, until there were only a few left. Peter appeared to be the last to leave, cracking her bedroom d

ly after the house had gone quiet. Her cue to get dressed in

a Bella made her way to the edge of the garden and slipped into the forest. There was no boundary wall to mark the separati

dn’t jog without wearing a sports bra with structural steel support. Slowing to a pace the girls

hen pet

l,

ried her best to ignore her heart hammering against the inside of

f, clamping her eyes shut. “They can’t have just dis

thout thinking, she turned that way. Opening her eyes revealed the path ahead, barely more than a parting of

life. She should

not consciously, but something inside her did. Since it had more of an idea than she did

rise, and by the time she neared the top, she was on her hands a

. Obviously well used, it had logs and boulders set around a central r

lized they weren’t looking at her. In fact, no one had even noticed she was there. Inste

him. She reminded herself he wasn’t hers, not anymore… if he ever had been to

her rejected the sight of the man standing in front of Rex. Tall, ta

at it, but some of his movements were just too fluid and controlled. Humans didn’t move like that. They were an uncoordinated mess, a jumble of body parts u

mp

ycans dragged in a hooded figure, whipping the bag off his head to reveal another vampire. H

to kill Jamie. For all s

, also vampires from the way their eyes and fingernails glittered a bit too much in the moonli

r attention. Then he looked up and she was on her feet, racing down t

god, Jamie Y

. They stuck to back alleys and bars no one went into alone. Not if they planned to be breathing by the end of the night. If there was anything

rl was a person most people avoided like the bubonic plague. And with good reason. Tall, blond, and with t

of awe Vlad was in more civilized circles. Rex had cooperated in a few… business deals with hi

Rex was concerned. Valkyries weren’t known to be cuddly. They’d sooner tear out a man’s throat just for standing in the way. An

ch a half-breed have? A child whose two halves were in constant opposition. Half Valkyrie, a creature born to di

ined a lot

ds were inherently unstable. There was no way around it. Malik had something Alex wa

the hood off his head. The captured vamp winced in the bright

pire didn’t move, not a flicker o

eal with another pack alpha who had links with another city’s Mistress a