I got downstairs and Francesco was chatting with Joe. I had a plate of food for the doorman and the vampire looked at me with a smile. “You look like shit,” he said eloquently. I laughed. “You have no idea. Can you just shadow walk me home please?” He nodded. “My grandson could have done…

Quinn had stopped screaming and Ryan was standing near the door. Alex was in my arms and she stared at us. I held out my hand to her. “You can join us,” I said softly. Alex started to move but it was just to readjust. “Come sit.” He smirked. “Unlike us, Nox likes to touch,…

I took the stairs and at the bottom I remembered I hadn’t brought food for Joe down. My storming out would get ruined but I went back up stairs. I could have just walked in and taken a plate and left but every piece of me was breaking inside. A little girl was hurting and…

The way the look on Alex’s face got darker and redder I knew the reason she was here wasn’t good. Their conversation was taking a turn and I saw it before Alex growled and got up and started for the door. I rushed in front of him and he blinked at me in surprise. “Whatever…

I waved to Joe as we walked to the stairs, it wasn’t a far walk and Alex walked the stairs without grumbling. He was brooding over something and I left him to his thoughts. He’d talk to me soon enough I was sure. He unlocked the door and led me into his dark apartment. It…

The thing was I didn’t want any of that ambition but it kept falling at my feet – quite literally. Alex walked into the kitchen with Benji trailing and Adrian still kneeling on the ground despite my acceptance of his submission to my supposed Alphaness. Alex looked from me to the surrounding crowd and then…

We all stared at the book, Ant was the first to speak. “The Umbra is all magic, right?” I nodded. “The Order of the Umbra.” Alec shook his head. “Not the Chaos and Order make up the Umbra. Order comma of the Umbra.” “A person?” I asked. “An entity anyway. My sire used to speak…

Ant interrupted, “Aurora, mother believes in prophecy but Nox does not. Speaking of it is only going to make him rebel against it. It is best just to know it, and let it play out.” Aurora laughed. “You worry, darling. It has already happened as prophecy foresaw.” “So you are saying my life is written.…

The rest of the vampires behaved themselves. Sal tried to shove Alec out of the seat at the head of the table without actually touching him. But the vampire, my vampire didn’t move, he sat with a smirk his feet still on the table until Sal relented. The big black man who had tried to…

Alex held me until I was right which could have been forever because I was never right, but I felt better and Alex had agreed and we both had things to do. Alex left to go meet Benji at the location that they were looking to lease for their Vegas meets New York show. They…