(Cassie’s POV) Three hours later, a now mobile and newly sealed Brady was sitting on the sofa in the living room with Amelia on his knee and I was inspecting Ava’s wrist. She and Drew had emerged from his room a few minutes before and Ava was jumping around excited. They had completed the bond last night and through the night Ava had completed the transition into a Hybrid, much in the same way as Hunter had with me. I looked at the pattern that had formed on her wrist and saw it was an extension of Drew’s pattern. I smiled. I still didn’t know how everything worked, but I was loving finding out. “Oh, and watch!” Ava said, suddenly very excited. She turned and looked around and then focused on a dying houseplant that a scowling Noah was standing by. She walked over and placed her hand o

