CHAPTER 31

DANIELLA POVI don't know how long I sat in that room. Time had stopped meaning anything normal. Sophia's hands were still warm around mine at some point and then they weren't, she'd been pulled away by someone needing her, and one of the other women sat with me instead, quietly, but not overstepping her boundaries and not trying to push me to talk, just present, and I sat there and stared at the same spot on the wall until someone told me it was over. Like that was a word that made sense for what had just happened.After a while, I crashed on the woman's shoulder. Too weak to fight the sleep. By the time I woke up, I was already in a room. I don't remember getting up. I don't remember walking out of that room. I just remember waking up in a room, with Rider beside me and and the house was quiet again, eerily quiet, like the place hadn't just been full of wolves twenty minutes ago, and there were people moving through the wreckage of whatever had happened, fixing things, checking on

CHAPTER 32

DANIELLA POVI didn't hear the howl again but I sat up anyway, just in case. My phone was in my hand, the lamp on, and at some point I must have just passed out because I woke up still in yesterday's clothes with the sun way too high already and my phone dead somewhere by my feet.I checked my phone, and saw Eleven missed calls. Six from Rider, three from Lilian, and two numbers I didn't even recognize and honestly I didn't care enough right then to find out who.I just lay there for a minute looking at the ceiling. My mouth tasted disgusting, my neck hurts from sleeping wrong, and underneath all of that, underneath the normal morning stuff, there was this other thing sitting in my chest that I didn't have a name for yet, it was heavy and cold, like something had moved in overnight and hadn't left.I plugged my phone in, but I didn't bother calling anybody back.I thought about calling Aunt Lily. I actually picked the phone back up at one point, and searched for her name, aching t

CHAPTER 33

RIDER POVI had sat in my office for almost two hours without working or using my cell phone. I hadn’t done any work in the past two hours. I had simply sat in my office looking like an idiot without doing anything productive, while everyone else was moving inside the pack house like there was nothing wrong at all, but there was something actually wrong.I had thought of what happened almost forty times but repeating did not make it easier. The expression on her face when I changed my position. The particular expression on her face which was neither exactly of fear nor something lesser than fear. It was like the ground had simply vanished from underneath her while she was standing on it, and then the scream followed by my mum dragging her into the safe room and the door closing while I was standing there in the middle of a rogue attack thinking about nothing but that look on her face.Jordan came to check up on me in my office, but I did not bother responding . After about 40 minut

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