Julia Locke POV:

Back when I had shown Marcus my other imprints, I had needed to inject him with a special version of my venom. I didn’t need it to see the hundreds of versions of myself that I had left with the members of my family.

I never used the influence my imprints had over my family to exercise direct control over them, but if I gave them a suggestion it would be almost impossible for them to refuse once I insisted.

Right now, all members of my family were ...