บททั้งหมดของ The Omega and Her Three Wolves   : บทที่ 111 - บทที่ 113

Marianne POVRalph had given me a battery-operated alarm clock for my birthday, January first. It had seemed like a stupid present at the time. Even more ridiculous was how happy I was to get a present at all, and how much that clock made my chest warm with appreciation every night for three weeks when I lay awake in bed, staring at the soft glow of the red numbers as they ticked time down. It was the first present I’d received for my birthday since my aunt passed away.I hadn’t told anyone when my birthday was, so it wasn’t surprising that I didn’t receive presents. But it was nice to have this physical thing, saying, ‘Hey, I was thinking about you.’Tonight, tucked into the layers of thick quilts with the wind howling outside, I kind of hated that clock. The numbers were changing far too slowly. Every time I closed my eyes, only to open them again because I couldn’t get my brain to shut up, it was a few minutes at best, rather than the hours I wanted it to be.A light flickered on i

Ralph POVFuck!I tore out of the cabin, chasing after the writhing shadowy form. I couldn’t even see Marianne anymore. As I leaped from the doorstep, I shifted to wolf form. Movement flickered in the corner of my eye, and I turned, snarling. But it was only Billy in his wolf form, angling away from the cabin to follow after the shadow.The blizzard thickened around us as I pushed myself through the drifts. It was such fresh snow that I sank with every step. The black smear that was the thing that abducted Marianne grew smaller and smaller until the darkness swallowed it. I kept running hard, certain that I’d see it soon if I just went a little faster—A howl behind me pulled me up short. I stood in the snow, my ears rotating backward. The snow was starting to get lighter now, closer to the top of the mountain. The chill stole through my fur into my bones, but that wasn’t because of this bleak night. No. That thing that stole Marianne away… There was only one thing it could be.I was