Evelyn's POV

I knew what was coming. His eyes, usually so composed and indifferent, now bore into me with an intensity that was impossible to ignore. The silence between us was thick, laden with unspoken questions and suspicions that neither of us was quite ready to voice.

I had known this day would come. Ever since that night when we rescued the kidnapped she-wolves from the Dark Mirror rogues, the memory of those herbs had haunted me. I’d acted on instinct, using the ...