AIDEN POV
Perse, my sweet, feral love, had just given Keres his Christmas present.
The green light to hunt Richard down.
And judging by the grin on my brother’s face before he disappeared into the woods with Marcellus, he was going to enjoy every f*****g second of it.
Poor Thane had been chosen for prison duty with Liam, which meant handling Kyan’s surviving wolves before anyone else decided loyalty was more important than breathing.
And I?
I had won the medal.
Finishing Ermes’s interrogation with the two Golden Wolves.
The winter garden waited ahead of us.
And f**k, I hated that place now.
Maybe that was unfair. It was not the garden’s fault. It had been Perse’s favorite spot. Her quiet place. Her weird little kingdom of impossible roses, soil under her nails, notebooks full of
