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 little

movement.

she might be

shock. Women would go catatonic at the sight of a dead son or husband. And

the rage I unleashed…it

Leah knew the whole

the many ways I’ve wronged her…

gasping in earnest and I listen for her heartbeat. She wails and twitches then goes lifeless in my arms. I lift her body to my ear and press her chest to my head listening for her pulse, but as the seconds tick

wolf howls in my head.

heart is

me so her

doesn’t move,

down

a wolf where I can command her wolf

I can drag her back from the other side

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