“I don’t know how another Arrow would respond.” “I’m not normal,” he told her, because he would not lie to his mate. He hadn’t shut anything down he had it barely caged behind a construction of chill control. “Can most Arrows do that? Just shut down emotion after such a vicious shock?” “I can feel it, the ice crawling over the fire.” An edge of a growl in her tone. Selenka’s eyes were half-gold, half-brown as she examined him. But for today, for this time, he was functional again. His core hadn’t been stable for a long time. “I’m stabilizing,” he told her, though-at the deepest level-it was a lie. The deep red flame that was his compulsion toward Selenka continued to burn in his gut, potent and visceral and unlike anything he’d ever before felt, but he could think again. He leaned into the brutal training he’d undergone as a child and used it to assist his mate by slowly, methodically rebuilding the control mechanisms in his mind. Ethan’s mate was an alpha wolf and right now, she was in the middle of an operation. He understood that mates backed one another-they didn’t smash foundations but built them. He’d watched Aden with Zaira, Vasic with Ivy Jane, Abbot with Jaya. “Or you’ll push my wolf to violence.”Įthan didn’t want to stifle the heat that scalded him, but even in the fog, he’d learned things. “Maintain.” It was a growled order from his mate. Should anyone try to get between him and Selenka, he’d use his power without compunction. As he did in the primal being that was a shadow in his mind, its teeth and claws bared. It hurt but the pain was one in which he gloried. ETHAN DIDN’T KNOW what was happening, didn’t understand the alien heat in his veins.
Because Selenka's new mate has a terrible secret, his mind surging with a power that is a creature of madness and death. Even if the mating bond is full of static and not quite as it should be. Yet Selenka's wolf is resolute: Ethan Night, broken Arrow and a man capable of obsessive devotion, is the mate it has chosen. Mating at first sight is a myth, a fairytale. Then violence erupts and Ethan finds himself crashing into the heart and soul of an alpha wolf.
Assigned as part of the security force at a world-first symposium, he carries a dark agenda tied to the power-hungry and murderous Consortium. Numb and disengaged from the world, he's loyal only to himself. That currently includes the empaths who've flowed into her city for a symposium that is a security nightmare, a powder keg just waiting for a match.Įthan Night is an Arrow who isn't an Arrow. Īlpha wolf Selenka Durev's devotion to her pack is equaled only by her anger at anyone who would harm those under her care.
New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn't exist.
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