This Time, I Accept Your Brother's Claim novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Heart Failure
Auden was on his knees beside him before I'd moved.
He rolled his father onto his back.
The old man's lips were blue. His skin was cold and wet, and his eyes were open and not seeing anything.
Auden put his ear to his chest.
"It's skipping," he said. "It's skipping and slowing."
He bent and smelled his father's mouth.
I watched his face change.
"Wolfsbane."
"Your bag," I said.
"It's at the gate. With my clothes."
I was already running.
I let my wolf take my legs without letting her take the rest of me, and I went across that garden faster than I'd ever moved in a dress.
The gate. The heap of clothes in the grass. The canvas bag.
I tore it open on the way back.
The little glass vial was in the side pocket, wrapped in a sock, exactly where he'd put it the day I told him to.
Auden snapped the top off with his teeth.
He drew it into a syringe and put it straight into the muscle of his father's thigh, through his trousers.
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