Chapter 68

“You’ve been in a car with me,” Vaughn said patiently. “I’ve never once come even close to harming you.”

“Until that time you turned into a wolf,” Randy said. “You and your crazy kid. I’d say that was pretty close. Too fucking close for me, anyway.”

There wasn’t another word exchanged between them, and Randy didn’t look up while he forced his leg to cooperate. He didn’t look over when, sweating and cursing, he managed to find a position that was only somewhat agonizing. And he didn’t look back as he drove the truck out of the driveway and away.6: March

Loss…

Pain…

Fear…

Shame…

The wolf lifted his nose to the sky and howled a cry that his human self would have heard as, “Why?”

And all the life in the fields, the trees, the skies, and the rivers, shrank back. Even the moon slipped behind some clouds as if to hide its face and avoid the question.

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