ZADEFor a long moment, it was just silence between us, two wolves staring across the grand chamber, neither blinking. Then her lips curved wider, blooming into that smile I knew too well, sweet, poisonous, impossible to resist.“Well,” she said softly, spreading her arms, “aren’t you going to give your mother a hug?”The corner of my mouth tugged despite myself. Some habits never died. I closed the distance, and when her arms slid around me, it was warm, suffocating, familiar. She smelled of rosewood and smoke, like a hearth fire laced with blood.“You’ve been a stranger,” she chided as she pulled back, tapping her finger lightly against my jaw as if scolding a child. “Neglecting me? After all I’ve done?”“Never that,” I said, lips twitching into a small smile. “I’ve just been… busy. You did give me an assignment, remember?”“Ah, yes,” Her eyes gleamed. “The Dalton-Romano girl.”“Brooks,” I said, letting the name roll off my tongue carefully, deliberately casual. “I befriended her.
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