I said, and snatched the packets of gauze from him, to rip off all their tops at once. I shoved the gauze inside my silver wound with a hiss—it wouldn’t heal it but it might stop me from smelling like blood—then I wound the rest of the chain around it. “You should have let me kill her,” he said. ...
I peeked out, Joshan rescued me, and this time when he offered food I ate everything on the plate. The story I had finished was still rolling in my head just like the pearl – and I wanted to give chase. I had to know if the book was real – or just another fiction with enough reality...
Almost-alpha! I know. Something had changed in my wolf during our battle with Syd. We’d almost won, despite what’d come after, and both of us knew it. We’d had a chance. Healing! Yes. Sammy smells like blood Smells like us I know. Close now, washing -- like tongues lick. I relaxed into her minist...
she asked the mirror quietly. She’d been so good, up until this past week. She’d tried so hard, despite all the absences – God, what if he was living a separate life? What if instead of going off to international places, he was getting on a plane and flying to see another family? Someone else who...