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The Bitten Born

Chapter 6 The Same Kind of Sadness

Word Count: 1222    |    Released on: 24/02/2022

k in a loose ponytail that left carefree strands of hair dangling on the sides. He had expected any relative of Ellis to be older and pasty white. This was a you

as he thought about much of his isl

re intently watching as it

ack and he had to restrain himsel

u to come so soon,"

me? Did you know Mr.

No, not r

e two of them. Her coloring was much the same but she was older. Probably her mother. Nathan wondered just how they

ked as if she were waiting for him to say more but words failed him. All he could do was

s," she said to his

from his pocket a

just m

as if he were under the ho

n," Nathan sa

Brooke

next o

there in t

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and her fiancé when Marcus made it over. He pushed back the flash of jealousy that invaded h

han handed him the phone stopped on an up cl

mself flinch a

let him know that

nd he could kiss goodbye any credibility that Cole and Marcus siding with him might get him. It was a line that no shifter crossed

inted out and navigated to her on

as stopped short by a series of wolves she'd taken, m

woman?" Natha

tact Nathan could tell he was reading his mind. "Thirty minutes. I'll watch the shop until

he land had reclaimed so much of what had once been his home. He'd been so young but he could still remember and feel vivid flashes from his former childhood

s fangs thinking about the times he spent tearing into tender sweet meat with his brothers and cousins. He even remembered his first

d. The last thing he remembered of them, in the dark of night, his mother had encouraged all of them to shift and run into the woods

ushing his terrified legs faster beyond the falling forms of his brothers until he was in the rive

away that the connection between him and his father had been severed. H

ed. A pain that he knew could only be appeased if every last person who'

adness that seemed to wash over her. He hadn't meant to, but he focused his hearing on her breath and soon he could sense her heartbeat. Steady and strong, braving the sadness of death, isolation, loneliness and abandonment and suddenly he found his own heartbeat matching hers. She turned

of her and ready to break into a run to get back to the station when the ground beneath his paws snapped, and he felt the

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1 Chapter 1 Remembrance2 Chapter 2 Call of the Moon3 Chapter 3 Called Home4 Chapter 4 An Ending and a Beginning5 Chapter 5 Ashes to Ashes6 Chapter 6 The Same Kind of Sadness7 Chapter 7 We Meet Again8 Chapter 8 I See You Made a Friend9 Chapter 9 The Conclave10 Chapter 10 Devious11 Chapter 11 Rabbits, Foxes, and Wolves12 Chapter 12 Welcome Home13 Chapter 13 The Better Question to Ask14 Chapter 14 She is Your Rib15 Chapter 15 I Like the Beard16 Chapter 16 Like Silk and Fire17 Chapter 17 It's a Small World18 Chapter 18 Unbreakable Bonds19 Chapter 19 It Wasn't an Accident20 Chapter 20 I Can't Accept That21 Chapter 21 Betrayed, Bitten, Born22 Chapter 22 My Name is William Francis23 Chapter 23 They Weren't Hunting Animals24 Chapter 24 How Could I Ever Forget25 Chapter 25 They Are Your Family26 Chapter 26 Flashes and Feelings27 Chapter 27 He Fell In Love28 Chapter 28 You Should Have Guessed29 Chapter 29 Where She Began30 Chapter 30 Ask Me Again31 Chapter 31 Nothing but the Truth32 Chapter 32 Girls' Night33 Chapter 33 How Long Until34 Chapter 34 Three Nights35 Chapter 35 This is George36 Chapter 36 It's Friday Night37 Chapter 37 Sizzling Steaks38 Chapter 38 Including Cole39 Chapter 39 Or Make You Stronger40 Chapter 40 Your Enemy41 Chapter 41 Where... Am... I... 42 Chapter 42 Too Many Weeks43 Chapter 43 We Could Run... Disappear44 Chapter 44 Just in Time45 Chapter 45 Flight to London46 Chapter 46 What Do You Hear47 Chapter 47 I'm Asking Again48 Chapter 48 Into the Light49 Chapter 49 Timeless50 Chapter 50 Family Tree