The Werewolf Bond

the nurses wheeled

t I had just seen as the image of

e bleeding,"

t it, and saw that it was where the IV had torn out of my skin as I rushed out o

uickly surrendered myself to the nurse, who quickly pressed some cotton wool on it to staunch the bleeding.

ned. That was when it struck me that my wrist was still vibrating where he'd gripped me, the very one that the IV had

a relief from my reality. Now that he was gone, the room felt emptier without him,

to look at me, and somehow didn't care. His betrayal that I had found out only that morning-those texts on his ph

ndage after about five minutes, and I felt

, my throat rough as

fused. "The guy wh

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u in, and he said he didn't need to give his name because your husb

is he now

reasing. "Oh. He's alright. Th

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nything of yours

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let him rest. Then, when they searched, he wasn't there. We

ing lik

or someone on the run who only helped you. He had paid the deposit for your bills as so

he eyes. For a moment, I wanted to ask the nurse about it, but Ralph was thanking her for

d to th

offering to take me home, but I knew his voice was laced with false care. I yearned to scream, to ask him about the affair, the lies, the wish for me

e, I got into his c

nes. I pressed my forehead to the glass as it moved, the stranger's face flashing bef

me now having to return home with Ralph, to sleep beside him while knowing what he'd done, I feared h

s in my mind, the card he'd spun so effortlessly. I wondered if it meant someth

he come to

ver see h

est, and I was still thinking about it when the car came

asked, his voice s

swer. Knowing that he wanted me dead had changed my heart towards him, and

so he could split

ver let hi

as time fo