She Killed Me Once, So This Time the Whole Pack Is Watching novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: What Tobin Carried Back

Bram's link pulled on me through the mark the whole way up the north trail.

He ran ahead with his wolf's nose to the ground, and I ran beside him in boots too big for me, with four scouts behind us.

"Rosalind," he said in my head, and it was only a feeling with a word attached. "Slower."

"No."

"If it's a trap..."

"Then it's a trap with my brother in it."

The trail climbed through hemlock into a stand of old pines where the snow had not melted.

Where the trail forked, Tobin's other boot lay in the mud.

We found him a half mile on.

He was crawling.

His wrists were bound behind him with rope, and he had worked his way along on his knees and his chin, and the front of his shirt was black with blood.

"Tobin!"

I dropped beside him and rolled him onto his side.

One eye was swollen shut.

His lip was split to the chin.

He grinned at me anyway.

"Hi," he said.

"You idiot."

Bram shifted back and cut the rope with a scout's knife.

Tobin's arms fell forward, and he groaned.

"Two ribs," he said. "Maybe three. Don't hug me."

I hugged him.

He yelped and held on.

"What did you do?" I said into his neck. "What did you think you were doing?"

"What I should've done in the hall." He pulled back and looked at me with his good eye. "Six years I said she was ill. I wanted to say it to her face. To tell her I knew, that nobody was going to love her more for what she was doing, that you were the only person who ever..."

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