*Kyra*

I catch myself constantly stealing glimpses of Hayes' injury. The way the scars seem to crawl up his neck and into his cheek like a thorny rose vine creeping up a trellis. It twists and dips, spots shiny while others are dull and deep. My fingers itch to touch it, to trace the

tendrils that caused him so much pain as they dance up the side of his head, burning off half his eyebrow.

It's mesmerizing, almost beautiful. A map of his sufferings. He finds it appalling, convinced I could only feel the same way. But I don't avoid his touch because of his injuries. I run from the sparks he seems immune to.

The explosion that rips through my body and tries to urge me to follow what the moon goddess has given me. It's not about moving on from what I lost, but accepting what I am being offered. But I'm not sure I can or that I want to.

"Ask me," Hayes sighs heavily, the annoyance clear in his exhale as he remains looking forward. My brows pull together, the left corner of my lip pulling down in a confused frown.

"What exactly am I asking you?"

"Did it hurt? Does it still hurt? How did it happen?" Hayes says, his voice flat and unaffected.

"Is that normally what people ask?" I watch him closely as he clears his throat and looks in the opposite direction. "Because I got the feeling people avoid you."

"Because of my burns?" He scoffs, and I snort.

"No, because you're an asshole now."

Dean and Marcos chuckle ahead of us, both of them shaking their heads.

"Yeah, well, if I look like an asshole people don't ask me annoying questions," He grumbles.

I arch a brow and smirk up at him, regardless of how much he tries to look away.

ask you any questions. You demanded I ask you what you assumed I wanted to know." I remind him and he

at me," He

here to be your best friend again, Hayes." I say, lengthening my strides to distance myself from him. After three steps, I spin, walking backward as I face him. "Every warrior knows what creates those burns, and I know the pain they bring the bearer of them." Then I spin on my toes

me and looks down on me for some reason. But if we are going to be stuck

Tracker?" She muses, her

Nisha." I tell her. "Just coming up for

entirely suffocating and when he isn't around, usually there is Marcos drowning me with his closeness and his

shakes her head before she points up ahead, where

immediate desire to send me off ruffles

do something to offend you?" I ask, tired of the

arches a

personal choice." I

a few steps before she exhales and groans. Her hand reaches out, clutching my elbow, tugging me back next to

up and very anger filled family. But that's all I have, so yes, I am hesitant to welcome someone else into

us, a scent prickling my senses as I slow down. The trees are still, not a breeze

my eyes, tilting my chin up and taking

overly warm metal or charcoal in the faintest way pulling me off the

thread leading me as it pulses away, calling me to follow. I can feel the excitement rising in my gut, a

you going?" Nisha hisses after me, but

cut around a

cut, the under skin looking green and still moist. It's more like a

a shiver running through my body when I bring my hand to my nose and look closely. There is a slight shimmer, an oily hue, on my fingertips. As if it matches the

spit

it. Ezrah and the egg are close. Now it is a matter of how close. What I need now is stealth and silence as I rely on my lycan's

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