Chapter – 19

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu              

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~Aiden

Reliving the past was painful.

Anna looked at me expectantly as I composed myself to tell her our past.

This is getting tougher than I thought. I rubbed my neck nervously as I started telling her our story.

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~Flashback~

~Aiden

The fresh morning air was cold against my skin as I jogged down the familiar path inside the woods. Cold mornings in January are one of my favorites, the snow crunched against my shoe-clad feet and I couldn’t wait to get home have a cup of hot coffee.

My nose twitched as a ball of reddish brown fur whisked past me. I laughed as I raced the wolf towards home in my human form.

"You will never win this race Nico,”