Evaline:
By the time I finished replying to the last message I had received today, I still couldn't wipe the smile off my face.
Rowan had just hung up, but not before showering me with every kind of praise he could think of.
"I still can't believe it," he had said, laughing softly on the other end. "You actually made both River and Kieran Thorne give in? I have seen pow4rful Alphas crack faster than those two. You are something else, Eva."
I remembered the disbelief in his tone, that mix of admiration and faint amusement that always seemed to color his words when he spoke to me.
"Don't sound so shocked," I had teased. "You make it sound like they are impossible to deal with."
"Because they are!" he had countered. "River is a fortress, and Kieran is a walking rulebook. I was halfway convinced they would lock you in your room before they ever let you get close to those case files."
