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“Ye’ll find her She’ll be safe,” Odhran said, and I closed h my head like a mantra to calm my beast, or at least try to placate him for the moment

I will find her I’llside

I looked to ht The hallas empty, quiet I could have done this in a professional h with the fliripped the handle, h

I turned the knob with a quick, firht off, and the door swung open, the lock disengaged

I stepped inside and instantly stilled as I inhaled deeply, s my mate’s scent for the first ti the back ofI needed to survive

I took in the sh I didn’t know ine these aesthetics fit her perfectly A sreen velvet couch that looked a little worse for as to my left, the coffee table made out of pallets in front of that

The kitchen was catty-corner to the “living room,” small and compact, the appliances and cupboards from the ’70s But my mate had clearlyon the wall and a few potted plants placed throughout the boxlike roo deeply once more I realized weren’t real

I could have never i in the city—too many people, nowhere to run free, no wilderness forin her scent, I realized I would’ve stayed anywhere with her and been so grateful, so thankful that a higher power had givenmy other half

There was a fra on the pallet table, beside an old boxy TV I foundI picked it up, the light, silver-colored fra old, oxidized The picture was of h, but it couldn’t have been taken too long ago as both feer than they were now

The sun was in front of theht across their faces Evelyn had a hand lifted to her brow to block so to be caught in a gust of wind as it was suspended in a veil of black behind her, a snapshot of beauty

She was all I could focus on