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August 28 - November 21, 2025
I’d told Elise I’d loved her because I did. Mamma had taught me to ‘non mentire mai con il tuo cuore’. Never lie with your heart. My emotions didn’t make me any less of an Alpha or any less of a man. And it didn’t matter to me whether Elise felt the same way. I loved her, and I was going to continue loving her so long as my heart deemed fit. So that was all there was to it.
Dante’s eyes widened and a laugh ripped from his throat. I bit down on the insides of my cheeks as some fucking insanity almost possessed me to join in.
“When I took over the pack, I banished her for what she did to you. No one even knew she had you until the news spread that you’d escaped. She told everyone you were dead-” “Bullshit,” I snarled. “I might be your enemy, serpente, but I don’t lie to anyone. And what Mariella did was an atrocity I wish my Clan weren’t linked to. That’s why she’s gone.”
I tried to wriggle myself upright, but a hiss of pain escaped me the moment I moved. Dante and Ryder woke instantly, the two of them pushing themselves up so that they could look at me. “Stai bene, amore mio?” Dante asked, throwing an orb of light up into the air so that he could look at me. “Stay still, I’ve got you,” Ryder demanded, his pinched brow telling me that he could feel my pain.
“Noi siamo i tuoi schiavi, amore
Endless tunnels, twisting and turning, a girl with silver eyes brighter than the moon, a stream of tarot cards then a pair of fiery wings that twisted up into the sky. A necklace of thorns then a girl with lilac hair covered in mud. A huge palace reached above me then a Dragon with jade green scales landed on its roof, two babies lying in a cot, then two dark haired twin girls clutching hands at the bottom of a darkened pit.

