KNOX I had never been more terrified in my life. I had known that Celeste was simmering. Mila’s relentless prodding was pushing her closer to the edge, and her pain was transforming into something combustible. I had watched her from a distance, keeping tabs on the patterns of her revenge, anticipating the moment she would snap. Still, I had never expected her to act without me and never expected her to orchestrate a plan so intricate, so dangerous, so close to the edge that one wrong step would have annihilated her. I finished securing the borders only minutes before Ingrid bolted toward me. “Alpha,” she said, shoving a device into my hands. “You need to go. Now. I don’t know how this skipped our radar, but Luna Celeste may be up to something deadly.” My heart stopped. “What did she

