Lahat ng Kabanata ng Howl for Justice : Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 70

The bedroom is a yawning void of silence, too loud and too empty to be sleep. Derek's breathing fills the space beside me, but I know he's awake. I feel it in the shift of the mattress, in the shift of the air, in the secrets that won't let me rest. I keep my eyes shut, pretend not to notice when he

My presence lingers in the office, a shadow that waits for the thief to arrive. I leave the door unlocked, a tactical oversight, a trap set with my own hand. The bait is tantalizing. The bait is a lie. I imagine Derek’s pulse quickening at the sight of it, imagine his hands shaking as he touches wha

My thoughts are too thin to catch. My breath is too quick to hold. My hands are too unsteady to keep. I feel the raw edges of the night coming, the raw edges of change beneath my skin, beneath my life. My claws scratch against the surface of my thoughts, against the surface of my office, against the

The bathroom lights are a yellow blur, the harsh fluorescent brightness making me squint, making my skin crawl, making the change come harder and faster and more unbearably raw. I stumble to the mirror, the surface cool and shocking against my overheated palms. The reflection is an unsteady accusati

I don’t know. But I decide. I decide, and it is too fast and too slow and everything in between. I try to speak. My words are a low, strained whisper against the harsh surface of my reality. They are as raw as the way I feel. “Please go,” I say, say it to Lucas, say it to the unbearable, unbea