ROSE P.O.V. Earlier... Everything is so royally f****d right now. This is not part of the plan. I’m supposed to be on a white sandy beach, the sun turning my skin into a beautiful bronze while I sip rum from coconuts. Lilly even told me that Flynn was going to propose to me. A month ago, he took her to the best jewelry store in New York City, Oscar Heyman. With her help, he'd picked out a beautiful Marilyn Monroe engagement ring, the one I had always dreamed of, especially since I idolized her. But now, I’m sitting in Lucian's office, and it feels like a prison. I have to be under watch or leave the pack entirely. I refuse to leave this hellhole without my beloved. I can feel the shadows of despair creeping in like a chilling fog, the tension pulsing through the room like an unsteady he

