Lia

We were all gathered in the living room, the kind of rare evening where nobody was bleeding, training, or running off to fight something with too many teeth. Just us. Safe. Together.

It was one of those moments where we needed a break and damn it, we would have one!

I looked around at them—my mates, the twins curled up with a blanket on the floor, even Rain behaving for once—and I felt this tightness in my chest. The good kind. The kind that made everything else worth it.

I leaned back into the couch, a blanket across my legs, and let it soak in.

No alarms. No blood....