PENNY POV
I rounded the corner first.
And the relief that hit me almost made me kneel on the ground and burst into tears.
Perse stood in the middle of the corridor. She was there, barefoot and blood-streaked, hair tangled around her face, clothes torn, skin bruised in places that made my vision go red.
Except she was not Perse.
Not completely.
Her eyes were glowing gold and freaking feral.
She stood beside her mates who looked like they had been carved out of violence and exhaustion. Thane was the closest to a door, huge and bloodied and still as a wall, almost as if he was guarding it. Keres had one hand half-raised like he was ready to kill whatever threatened her, and Aiden stood in front of her with blood running down his neck from a fresh bite, his hand still in her hair, his
