~RYLAN

I was trembling from fear and nervousness.

I had defied my brother— the strongest of us all— something Cassian and I had never done. We knew the monster that lived inside Sylver.

We knew the sort of beast he could become.

Yet even as I stood there, scared out of my brain, I felt strength. A strong pulsing energy that came from the undying need to protect the woman in my arms.

—The very emotion that pulled me out of my sleep and brought me down here. And it didn’t stop; it threw ...