Anton hadn’t actually done anything particularly threatening, except stare at Zoe. Very intensely. But she only had Vlad’s word that his brothers wanted to hurt Zoe, and she already knew she couldn’t trust him. Rose’s instincts didn’t buy this logic. There had been something in Anton’s eyes that set off alarm bells and had warning claxons sounding in her head. Her every nerve ending screamed at her to keep Zoe as far from Vlad’s brothers as she could get. And then there was the tiger shifter part. After two days happily hiking in the woods and playing in the snow with Zoe, Rose could almost believe she’d imagined that. Or that Vlad had somehow drugged her. That the real threat was Vlad’s insanity. Her instincts weren’t buying this either. She’d seen him change, watched with her own eyes as the man she used to love turned into a tiger. All the logic in the world wasn’t enough to convince her deep down that it hadn’t happened. And what about Zoe’s episodes? How else could she explain the pain her daughter went through, when no tests or exams had ever revealed a cause?
