Chapter 27: Guilt

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“The only reason I agreed to it is because you wouldn’t quit whining,” Lycia said huffing as she jogged along the road, her face sweating from the heat of the afternoon sun. I was captivated by her beauty. Her cheeks were tinged in redness, and her hair held to the slopes of her neck with wet tendrils.

“Why are you staring at me? Do I stink?” she asked suddenly aware of the condition she was in. It was natural after a run for people to work up a sweat. Almost a week had passed since we last went on that walk and had coincidentally met her aunt. Since then Lycia had made it a point for the two of us to be locked in her room all day and although I didn’t hate the time we spent together the wolf part inside me was starting to miss the outdoors, feeling claustrophobic in that room.

“No, you don’t stink at all,” I chuckled when I saw her stare at me in disbelief while wiping away some sweat from her forehead, “In fact I quite like your smell right now.”

Her natural brightness and he