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"What the hell?" I mutter, turning the necklace over. There's some dried blood on the chain, and it's broken.

The blood, I'm sure, is mine.

Selene pads over, her ears perke h. This is...

"My necklace. Yeah. How the fuck did it end up in my suitcase? And even that was packed all the way in Westwood territory, yet I lost this during the fight with Todd."

Her nose flares as she sniffs at it. It's a message.

"A message? From who?"

That cagey feeling again, as Selene avoids a direct answer. One who can teach you.

"Selene-we're not doing this cryptic bullshit again. Who is this a message from, and how? In fact, how did it ever show up in my apartment the first time?"

Her huff irritates me like nothing else, and I snap, "Selene, this isn't funny. I'm sick of the secrets. You're always waiting until too late to tell me things, and it isn't fair."

It isn't always a choice to hide things from you, she mutters. I'm bound by too many things.

"I swear to the Moon Goddess, if this is one of those things you said about the natural order of the world..." My threatening tone has nothing behind it, but she flinches anyway. No. This is a vow given to the Moon Goddess, in exchange for your

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security. In fact, you can consider the Moon Goddess the messenger in this instance. Her scent is all over that necklace.

I drop the necklace as though it's on fire. "What do you mean, her

scent?"

The thought of touching something with a divine scent on it is abhorrent. Like I'm defiling a precious artifact.

around for a

won't be erased by your touch. You can hold it. You can even put it in your

Why would I

just saying you could. She noses at it on the ground. The magic within is gone. Depleted. Holding it won't do anything.

did it return to me?" Maybe it's less about defiling the divine after all, and more that it feels kind of gross to

about those talents to say, but you can always

do you mean, a

Selene isn't aggressive, but more of a wolfish grumble as she snaps at the air. I told you a long time ago, I

Did she?

mentions it, there's

conversation like that.

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for forgetting my own wolf was supposed to find a teacher. But then again, how was I supposed to know

"What about Lucas' wolf?"

No.

warning bells in my head. "Do you have a problem with him? Did

tells me I'm on the right path, but I reel in my curiosity

know. Probably soon. You should

words have my stomach

What now?"

you might be upset with us, even when you

misery coming off her in waves. She won't even meet my eyes,

can't talk about it until she's

firm, even as she slinks off the bed

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angry with

soft mental whisper brings

you. Just come out here

me."

the bed, when

"Oka-ouch."