Calm After the Storm

August stood back from the pair, trying to give them the smallest amount of privacy since they were surrounded by the entire pack in the chambers, but she couldn't help overhearing what the two were saying to each other. They were in their own little world and no one else mattered. She doubted they even realized she was there. And August's heart soared.

Lucas deserved this. Neoma deserved this. The Goddess was truly amazing.

Who could have foreseen how this would happen? Zosime was one of the villains in this pack—a tool used by the elders for so many horrendous things. She was not someone August would have imagined rooting for, not before she knew her identity and background and the way she was manipulated into becoming a kind of machine for men who craved power.