The next morning, I awoke feeling groggy. I hadn’t slept at all the night before, too stressed about what the day might bring, especially with Nicholas’s disappearance after the meeting the day before.He had said that he would talk to me at the elimination ceremony, but I didn’t know that meant I w

My heart thundered in my chest so fiercely, I worried that it might break free from my ribcage and jump across the floor.What announcement was Nicholas about to give? What could he have to say that was so important he would hold up the entire ceremony?“Some of you maybe have been expecting this,”

I struggled to wrap my mind around all of this. I was apparently one of the missing Bear princesses. We were in the North. No one was coming to rescue us.Nicholas was far away, maybe still standing in that ballroom, staring at the place I had been. Or, worse, he was still fighting with the bear war

A mating bond…?Yes. Even though Nicholas and I had never talked about the love between us, I had still felt it grow over these months together. Nicholas had never made a bonding bite on my neck, yet inside of me, that bond had cultivated. Our hearts were bound together, mating bite or now.There wa

Nicholas was here. I didn’t know how. I didn’t know why. But he was here, and that gave me the strength I needed to act.I ripped my arm away from Joyce’s hold and rushed into the room where Hawk was choking my sister on the ground. Using all of my strength, I plowed into Hawk.My surprise more than