Mating Season: Luna Trials novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: Her Mother's Name

The command went through me.

My body turned toward the truck before my mind had decided anything.

One step.

Two.

My mother's arm slid out of mine, and my feet kept walking.

"Junie," my mother said.

"I can't stop," I gasped.

"Fight it."

"I can't!"

Hiram smiled, and the Ironwood guards stood behind him with their eyes on the ground.

I knew every one of them.

One had taught me to shift without screaming.

One had given me his coat on my first night in the prison pack.

Not one of them looked up.

Rook moved toward me, and I put out a hand without turning.

"Don't," I said. "You'll make it worse."

"Then tell me what to do."

"Nothing. Stay where you are."

The cold iron of the truck box was a foot from my hand.

I could feel the bond squeezing my chest, and my vision swam with white.

A hand closed over my wrist from behind.

It was thin and scarred, and it didn't let go.

"Hiram," said my mother.

Her voice had changed.

It was low and cracked, but it went through the quarry like a bell through a church.

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