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.

cold and light and she groans

movement.

think she might be

battles, I can remember some of my packmates going into shock. Women would go catatonic at the sight of a dead son or husband. And our

had my own meltdown once and the rage I unleashed…it definitely played

knew the whole truth…

she knew the many

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

wolf howls in

heart

against me so her

move, doesn’t respond.

last forty feet up the mountain and debate whether to put her down and begin CPR or

isn’t a wolf where I can

back from the

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