“I can see you worrying,” Julian whispered to me. “You shouldn’t. You’d be stunning in anything.” A light blush filled my cheeks. I glanced away, embarrassed. Farther down the table, Nicholas watched us, his mouth pressed into a hard line. After the banquet, Julian led me to Nicholas’s rooms,

I couldn’t remember now. I could only think of Nicholas and his hot mouth and the feel of his fingers running up and down my spine. He stilled one hand near the back of my neck and cupped the top of my spine in a traditionally possessive gesture. A thrill shot through my body. I wanted his mouth w

I nodded, just as Elva returned with her third doll. Nicholas stayed to play until late in the morning, when his duties finally pulled him away. He hugged Elva extra tightly before he left. He squeezed me too, though I pretended not to notice. After lunch, Tiffany stopped me just outside in the

Really, right now, the urgency was only for my sister. She was the one causing me the most danger. She was also the one I wanted to know the most about. Was she there by her own free will? Or because she was coerced? Tonight, I wouldn’t rest until I learned the truth, and then either saved her or

Terry motioned to the men around him, and they began to come closer. With a growl, Nicholas, in full wolf form, pounced from the dark of the tunnel and tackled two of the men closest to me at once. I had never seen him in his wolf form before, but I knew at once it was him. The dark brown fur wa