Chapter 31

AARON

What the he ll?

Leah pitches sideways onto the floor and convulses.

She gags and coughs again and more blood splatters the ground.

This isn’t panic or even some manic episode. This is more than grief.

Something is very wrong.

I jam my phone and keys into my pocket and sweep Leah up into my arms. I don’t bother with shoes or locking the door. I barrel out of the little cabin and start the hike up the incline, running as much as I can and only slowing so I don’t jostle her too hard or let her fall.

She’s wheezing and she doesn’t smell right.

and she groans with every

movement.

think she might

catatonic at the sight of a dead son or husband. And

rage I unleashed…it definitely played a part in

knew the whole truth…

she knew the many ways I’ve

and twitches then goes lifeless in my arms. I lift her body

in my head.

own heart is

her against me so her face is close to mine. “Leah!”

move,

feet up the mountain and debate whether to put her down and begin CPR or to get her in the truck and to a

wolf where I can command her wolf to

can drag her back from the other side with my own

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