16 Harper lay in Sef’s arms as dawn crested the horizon and filled the room with soft light. Everything had changed. She had decided after last night to surrender to Sef, to become his charl. Not because the s*x last night had been literally out of this world, but because of the way he held her, the way she felt his love blossom inside her. He’d promised her freedom, promised her a good, happy life with him…if she could trust him. And she wanted to. But she wasn’t going to abandon her brothers either. She would talk with Mason and Liam today and tell them what she had learned about the Ks. She’d never hated them, but she hadn’t understood them, not fully. Yet last night she’d spoken with Sarina and had realized that, in all the ways that mattered, the Krinar were just like humans. They

