His Luna's Forgotten Scars novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: Slow

We crossed the creek in the truck's headlights, and I put my bare hands on the first cracked border stone.

It was black granite, and it was shaking under my palms.

Wolves howled inside the manor, one after another, and I could hear children crying behind the walls.

I did not know any charm.

I only knew what I did for a coughing boy.

I pressed my hands flat, and I said, quietly, "Hush. I've got you. Hush."

The stone went still.

The howling in the house thinned out, and then it stopped.

The Beta stared at me with tears running down his face.

"It will hold for the night," I said. "Not longer. Get the Elder here tomorrow."

Garrick stood on the porch, grey and hollow, with his hands hanging empty at his sides.

He lifted a hand to me, and he did not say a word.

I crossed back with Ewan in the dark, and we did not speak in the truck.

The cabin was empty and warm.

Jory was asleep in the small back room, and Nan, who had sat with him while we were gone, had gone home, and for the first time since I came over the creek, there was nobody to hide from.

Ewan shut the door.

He did not light the lamp.

He stood in the dark with his back against the wood, and he looked at me.

"I'm not going to ask you to," he said. "You've had a hell of a day."

"I know I have."

"If you want to sleep..."

"Ewan."

"Yes."

"Take your shirt off."

His breath caught.

He took it off slowly, and let it fall.

I crossed the room and put my palm flat over his heart.

It was going so fast.

"I don't want to forget how this feels," I said. "Not one second."

"Then we won't hurry."

"You said that before. You were wrong then."

"I was."

"You're right now."

He smiled.

It was a small, crooked, helpless smile, and it undid me.

I kissed him.

It was not like the other times.

There were no teeth, and no anger, and nothing to run from.

His mouth was warm and slow and so careful, and I tasted the coffee he'd left cold.

He cupped my face in both hands.

"Rowena," he whispered.

"Mm."

"I want to see you."

"Then look."

I reached back and undid the buttons of my shirt, and I let it drop.

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