spot for Shawn yet, so I had to stash

eet to turn, heading back to the

e bin on autopilot, my fingers

already scratched with Joseph's signatu

months back, my eyes buggin

ster with no brakes. I don't want you crashing. Told hi

bet, him and Joseph, hi

Joseph signing with that cocky gri

ed in my fist like

pines, I clutched those papers and

ne look and waved me off like bad ne

eath. "Can't? What's

et my eyes. "Just...

stormed out, hitting the

erent howl: "No

throbbed lik

alathia Town was too chicke

en my pocket buzzed, Joseph, of

touching that scrap of nothing." His voice dripped

iling in my veins. "Why fight it? I'm handing you Zo

s voice purred through the line. "Jo

He flipped soft as b

lves who'd chew me up for scraps. Cut you loose? You'd be lucky to see sunrise. Shawn pulled me from the fir

k. Si

his words looping

; all I could do was

side by side, and it boile

I didn't ne

ill they snapped, I snarl

to the wolf who got m

et to grab Shawn from

ospital steps, my p

she-wolf Zoe? She swip

veins. I shook so hard I ne

h working, but

call-something about the

slamming the call and hai

started-thwack, thwack-the sick rhythm

the dirt; my chest

stumbling blind

a freight train-a raw, ripping scream tore fr