een holding slipped from her fingers and shattered on the fl

unded distant, underwater

de her skull. Her vision blurred, doubled, then suddenly sharpened

oom, sweat and perfume and something u

feet away as clearly as if peo

, but her voice came ou

haking. No. Not

sharpened, darkened to black points. The skin of he

ocking into a table. Glasses crashed t

zy grabbed h

e! Should

rough her chest, into her bones. It felt like her skeleton was trying

outh to scream a

bl

e, clawing need that made everything else disappear except the pulse points of every person in the room. She c

hispered. "

ghts e

ower of sparks and glass. Someone screamed. In the sudden d

clear and edged in colo

w her reflection in th

glowing from within. One gold, one crimson, one viole

fuck," she

ehind her ex

from the street outside. Rachel spun, her new predato

twisted, wrong, with too-long fangs and eyes that had gone completely black. His

a man lifted its head a

h a mouth full of

nded like worship and hunger and madn

lf at her with i

as the creature's claws raked through the space where her head had been a second before. She hi

un to track her. Its movements were jerky, broken, like a pup

screamed from some

enough. Claws caught her shoulder, tearing through fabri

re was someo

ly the creature was being ripped away from her. Rachel hit

boss's boss, the man she'd been crushing on from a safe distance for t

. Bright, burning, inhuman gold.

e a rumble that resonated in her

hing's head off wi

inal sound. Rowan dropped the head b

aws. Her eyes still glowed with three impossible colors. And Rowan Blackwood was walking toward her with glowin

him-whiskey and pine and something wild that made her want to

iling. That cocky, dangerous smile that she'd only ever seen from across

ut one blood

ges rippling through her body, the dead thing on the floor, the

ingers

the last thing Rachel saw before darkness swallo

not