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“She shifted,” Kryll breathes, understanding in his tone as he looks up at the ceiling, and I nod.

“Yeah, she shifted for me.”

Happiness is the only word I can think of that remotely describes what I’m feeling, but I know it doesn’t truly represent my core emotions right now. Content, aware, and filled with a sense of purpose, I feel like a new man.

A new wolf.

A claimed wolf.

“I can’t decide if you look happy or mad about it,” Raiden states, interrupting my thoughts, and I scowl at him.

“I’ve never felt calmer in my whole entire life. But the need to protect her, to defend what's mine, it’s overwhelming.” The truthslipping from my lips melts the tension from my limbs as Raiden gapes at me.

“More than before?”

“More than before,” I repeat, acutely aware that it shouldn’t be possible.

“I’m jealous,” he grumbles, making me frown.

“Of what?” Kryll interjects, his expression matching my own.

“Of her not being a vampire like me too.”

“Of course you are,” I say with a sigh, certain Raiden’s vampire selfishness is firmly back in place, but to my surprise he leans forward in his seat, bracing his elbows on his knees.

“So, to recap the hell out of our night, Addi is now a wolf, as well as a fae princess. Kenner wanted her to do it, to shift I mean, and Bozzelli called off the trial because she was in shock over the information Addi gave to the entire kingdom in her speech.” He looks between Kryll and me, waiting for confirmation, and I nod.

“That about sums it up.”

“She’s a dragon princess too,” Kryll states, further relaxing into the cushions behind him as a smug grin curls his lips.

“A dragon princess too. Thanks for that,” Raiden grumbles with a huff, shaking his head with irritation. “And what are we supposed to do with all of this now?”

“I’m going to do what every grown shifter does,” Kryll states, rising from the sofa and pulling his cell phone out of his pocket.

“What?” I ask, intrigued by whatever plan he’s got, but the bashful smile that takes over his face catches me off-guard.

“Call my mom.”

6

ADRIANNA

Reality clings to my skin, working hard to pull me from my deep sleep, and try as I might, I can’t seem to prevent it. My eyelids are heavy, grogginess weighing on my limbs as I sigh, but confusion quickly floods my thoughts as I struggle to stretch out.

Maybe it’s not the grogginess weighing down on me but the limbs of others smothering me beneath the bed sheets. Blinking, I fight off the exhaustion that still claims me to find Brody sprawled over me from the left and Raiden pressed along the length of my right side.

It’s definitely a sight to wake up to, but the heat they’re generating is on the verge of suffocating. Shifting between them, I spy Kryll lying on the other side of Brody while Cassian fills the chair in the corner of the room. His chin rests against his chest and his eyelashes lay softly against his cheeks.

I take a moment to soak it in. Four men,myfour crazy men, who can be sharp, cutthroat, and deadly, yet they look so angelic when they sleep.

It’s another layer of them, one I want to claim for my own. I want to blame the thought on my connection with my wolf, but ifI’m being honest, it’s been there all along, growing stronger with every passing day until I can no longer avoid the truth.

I muttered the words to Kryll back in his home, but now I feel them through my entire body.

They’re mine. And I am theirs.

A shiver runs down my spine, and I don’t know how, but I do know that acknowledging the fact makes my wolf happy.Veryhappy. It’s a weird sensation, feeling something so strongly, but it’s something I’m going to need to get used to.

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