Henry X William Afton Novels & Stories

“Experiment 12_ Henry Bart- Alpha werewolf- “X” Henry happened to be Harley’s childhood friend, it was even part of the reason she agreed to move here when her dad suggested they had to cause of work. Henry used to stay in Los Angeles but his parents moved here after they lost his sister, they planned a fresh start. Harley thought she could reconnect with her best friend after his grieving but soon teenagers started missing and Henry was one of them. Many still haven’t been found.

At Sandusky they took the cars for Cincinnati. As they neared the Queen City, they noticed at one of the stations a tall, intelligent, but rather reckless-looking young man, who entered the cars and took a seat directly opposite them. There was something peculiarly attractive to Raymond in the confident, self-possessed manner of the stranger, and ere long he had, to use a Yankee expression, "scraped acquaintance" with him, and learned that his name was Henry [pg 079]Ashton, and that he too was on his way to Frankfort, where he resided. As the young man told his name, Raymond turned to Stanton and said, "I should think that you'd feel acquainted with this gentleman, you are so partial to his

It was a huge change for both of them and it was tough for Henry. At first, he refused to believe that he had killed someone and that he couldn't be held accountable. But finally, it dawned on him, that he has done something terrible. That the people he killed were people that deserved to die. People like Mr. Jenson and his family. People like Mr. Katerina, the owner of the coffee shop. They were victims like everyone else. Henry couldn't bear thinking of his own life without anyone to talk to. So for three months, he had to cope with this awful loneliness.

I hung up. “Who was that?” Ashton asked and I raised my brows at him, my eyes quickly meeting his. Was he seriously asking me that? Anger rose up within me, my eyes shooting lasers at him and I was so sure he could see it and sense it too. “My bad” he raised his hands in an Innocent surrender but I only hissed. Turning my attention back to the file, we discussed Henry for a while longer before dropping the files to go for more. Henry's name is stained and as long as we have a lot of offense to pin his name to, we are good. We'll just have to pay him a visit.

If it hadn’t been for a good friend acting quickly, Christian Henry would still be dead. No one knew his secret, not even Aaron, a man he’d met a couple of decades after his world had been torn apart and then patched back together again. Even though they were battling a beast with a similar story, Christian hadn’t dared mention to Aaron what he’d been through. In fact, in the years since he’d been murdered and brought back to life, only twice had he ever even considered mentioning what had happened to him to another person. One of them had been Janette Findley, who seemed to suspect there was more to his story than he was letting on. And the other was Cadence.