Caelum.
I watched Leilani stride into the house with her head held so high and her back so straight, she could easily pass for a ruler.
But for the life of me, I wasn't mad at her. I wasn't enraged that she had just publicly insulted me— well, maybe I was a lil pissed, but that was nothing compared to the unease that had now settled in my guts like a boulder.
It was nothing compared to the fear gnawing at my chest, or the voices screaming at me to go after her.
Or the way my body had reacted so strongly to her, I still felt the aftershocks.
I knew that something about her now seemed different… tired. Closed off even; and call me a jerk, but I wanted to reopen it. I wanted her to look at me the way she used to: like I was her star and moon and the entire universe put together, not the way she'd done minutes ago.
"She hates us." My wolf, Ashen, whined but I instantly blocked him out.
No, Leilani could not hate me… she could never.
