Chapter 184. The Girl

Michael 

It’s early morning when I finally leave the castle for home, shifting into my wolf form and splitting the fog as I race across the castle grounds. I made sure my cousin was tucked into bed before making the rounds a final time, talking to my uncle Lex and Aunt Ivy, who were remarkably upset about the failed wedding. 

Lex, I don’t think he could have cared less about the idea of Cole marrying, but Ivy was excited about the prospect of bringing what she called, “the daughter I always needed” into the family, given that she and Lex only have Cole, the eldest, and James, their nineteen-year-old son. Ivy had been so excited for the wedding and Mom had turned my family’s home into a testament to all three vampire kingdoms in anticipation for the nuptials. 

I can’t imagine what they’re all thinking right now. 

I skirt along the boundary of the castle grounds in the fog. The first glimpses of sunlight dust my dark-brown f