TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING
“He used to get it as a boy, when the hunts went out, and the dogs brought things back. He grew out of it. You learn, in a house like this, in a life like this. You learn that being soft about small dying things is a luxury, and luxuries get you killed.”
There’s something under the lightness now. I can feel it, the way you can feel a current under flat water.
“I don’t think kindness is a luxury,” I say.
“No, you wouldn’t.” She glances at me, and for a moment the brightness thins and something almost real shows through—something that’s been watching me since I walked out of those doors. “Let me guess. Hard childhood. The kind where nobody came when you cried, so you decided very young that yo