Too Curvy For The Crown
My wrist throbbed where the iron had scraped it, and I pressed my sleeve against the dried blood and watched the country roll past the window, and I let myself imagine, for the first time in my life, that the story had finally turned in my favor.
Sable paced circles inside me, warm and bright and singing to herself. Mate claimed us. Mate took us home.
Home, I repeated, and the word tasted new.
The palace rose out of the evening in walls of pale stone, bigger than our whole pack grounds, and the car swept through three gates before it stopped. A warrior opened my door, and standing at the foot of the steps was the King, and warmth flooded up through my chest and my feet wanted to run to him,