Father Sold Me to an Alpha, So I Signed My Sister's Name novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: Mine

I tore his shirt open down the middle.

The bullet hole sat low on his left side, ragged and swollen, with black veins running out of it across his ribs.

The silver slug was still in there.

I could see the dull gleam of it under the skin.

There was a hunting knife on the shelf over the cot, rusted at the edges.

I held the blade in the lantern flame until it was hot, and I did not let myself think.

"This is going to hurt," I told his unconscious face.

I cut.

He arched off the cot with a roar, and his hand clamped around my wrist.

I did not stop.

I dug the point under the slug, levered it out, and flicked it across the floor.

It rang off the stove.

Black blood ran out of the wound, and I pressed my whole weight down on it with a rag from the shelf and held it until the flow turned red.

His grip on my wrist went loose.

His chest heaved, and his eyes opened, brown and clear.

"Linnea."

"It's out."

"I know." His voice was a rasp. "I felt it come out. Fuck."

"Don't talk."

"You cut a silver bullet out of me with a rusty knife."

"I did."

"Remind me never to make you angry."

I laughed, and it broke in the middle and turned into something else.

I put my forehead down on his chest and shook.

His hand came up and went into my hair.

We stayed like that for a long time, with the stove ticking and the rain on the roof.

Then I lifted my head.

His eyes were gold.

The black veins on his ribs had drained away, and the heat in his skin was a different heat now, the one a wolf gets when the poison leaves and the blood comes back all at once.

He was looking at my mouth.

"You said you wouldn't say it until I did," I said.

"I haven't."

"I know." I sat up and pulled my wet sweater over my head and dropped it on the floor. "So I will."

His eyes went down over my bare shoulders and the plain grey bra, and he swallowed.

"Linnea."

"Mine," I said.

Something in him broke open.

He sat up so fast that the cot groaned, and he caught my face in both hands and kissed me.

It was not like the cupboard.

It was a deep, hungry kiss, with tongue and teeth, and I tasted salt and blood on his mouth.

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