MOONBOUND
Forcing her to stay would cost me something I couldn't afford to lose, something that couldn't be reconstructed once it broke, and I understood that even as my wolf was making its case at full volume in the space behind my sternum.
"Reyes and one other," I said.
"Outside. Not in the apartment."
She looked at me for a moment, gratefulness oozing out.
“I am glad you didn’t fight me on this.”
I watched the car from the study window.
Through the gate, down the drive, the tail-lights red in the grey morning. Gone.
The estate settled into the silence it had before her. There was nothing in it but the furniture, fire and a large space that was missing the person it has been organising itself around
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