SHADOWS OF THE ALPHA
“In a golden retriever way.”
“That’s slander,” he said, giggling, and we turned down the side alley that cut back to Main.
I didn’t see him until I ran straight into him. Cold washed over me like I’d stepped through a waterfall.
“Watch—” I started, and stopped. The stranger’s eyes were the kind of dark that reflects starlight. Not black, not brown. Forest-at-midnight dark.
“Can you see me?” he asked softly.
The world went quiet. The distant bass from the club, gone. The buzzing alley light, gone. There was just his voice and the shock of it, like snow at the back of my neck.
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