SCARLETT The world split open beneath me. The stone crumbled. Shadows swallowed light. My scream tore from my throat as I plummeted into the abyss, my mark blazing against my skin like a star about to implode. Hands reached for me. Kael’s burning hot, his fire streaking through the dark. Darius’s sparking with lightning, his storm clawing against gravity. Lucien’s not flesh, but shadow, velvet and cold, stretching down like the promise of sin. My chest heaved. My wolf shrieked. My body screamed for one of them, for all of them. “Scarlett!” Kael roared, his golden eyes blazing, desperation cracking his voice. “Scarlett—NOW!” Darius bellowed, his storm-gray gaze locking on mine like chains. Lucien’s voice slithered into me like smoke. “Don’t fight it, little Moonbane. Fall to me.

