PERSEFONE POV Doctor Immacolati barged into the kitchen like a man who had been born angry and then chosen medicine because it gave him legal access to stupid people. Unfortunately, in that moment, the stupid people were us. Okay, probably just me, judging by the way he pointed at me and barked, “You!” All of us looked at him. Then Thane stood, positioning himself just one step between me and the doctor, silent and huge and suddenly so empty of expression that every wolf in the kitchen remembered their survival instincts at the same time. Oh, for f**k’s sake. Keres made a sound that sounded way too much like the beginning of a terrible decision, and Aiden’s hand closed around the edge of the table with the kind of calm that usually came right before he ruined someone’s life with ter

