Nova I ended up inviting Beth over to the Alpha House. I felt less embarrassed inviting her here than bringing Zane or Amari over to her place. She did worry that it wasn’t the best idea for her to come over with her eight- and six-year-olds—three humans journeying to the house of the most powerful werewolf. Her concern reminded me how most humans felt about werewolves. How I used to feel about werewolves before Lila turned out to be one herself. Before I was possibly fated to be with two different werewolves and fast friends with another. I’d made a joke about how we already had a mix of werewolf and human children getting along wonderfully in the house, so if the kids could do it, so could we. Granted, Beth thought Aria and Lila were both werewolves, which I was careful not to correc

