airio
my feet sank into the wet grass, watch
the two dead wolves began to fad
remely violent and dark e
ffocating and heavy. A feeling I couldn't run from, unless I wen
feel as feeble and docile as a hu
ht was di
I could track every singl
l the stench of blood cooling in the dead wolves, and beneath th
check if she was running a fever, th
closer, I smelled the lo
ti
ew feet away, his breath
thudding against his ri
was the roar of the rain and the d
sky, briefly illuminatin
ll it all without fe
a sharp int
red, his voice trembling and
ttention was entirely
of black ink in the wet grass, and I
before feeling its dampness on the ba
a lon
tticus's voice cracked, rising
d just behind me. I could feel the heat of his anxi
ing, naked and drenched in blood under the storm, standi
my madness. She had touched me when I was at m
ea was ludicrous, a violation of the sacred
line, and she was nothing more than a st
presence could call forth a primal desire in a Lycan or other, a hunger not unlike the way our raw power could hypnotize
juries begin to heal and the dark
e energy out of her. That sh
pposed to
in the back of my throat, but it was quickly
r. Surviving that, and the way my own wounds ha
nally spoke to Atticus as
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