One Year Later Quirin “Come on, Quirin! You can punch harder than that,” Henry, my best friend and closest thing that I have to a brother, says to me. “It’s your birthday, Henry. I don’t want to make you cry before we celebrate your big day,” I taunt. Where Henry is a shining star of happiness, I’m a black cloud of anger. Being around him helps to keep the darkness at bay, but no one can remove the darkness that has consumed me since the day that I watched my father die. I had planned my revenge on Alpha Warren for years, had intended to take everything that he loved from him. But all that changed a year ago when his mate saved my life. Not only had she saved my life, she’d insisted that I live. She, like Henry, had a bright golden light that shines around her. She’d taken my face in

