Even though my pack was across the road from me, still talking to the sheriff deputies, the moment Horace Ford arrived, I could feel all three of them tense up. I did, too. My stomach muscles tightening so strongly, I thought I might vomit all over Deputy Schmidt’s boots.
“Great, the old man’s here,” he muttered. I probably wasn’t suppos
Ben drove me home. I don’t think I spoke the entire way, just sat there, staring ahead. The last time I’d been in a vehicle hadn’t worked out particularly well for me, so that was part of it. Also, I was drained from working on the two injured dark wolves. Ben didn’t try to get me to talk. He just drove.
“Grayson, I think you might’ve misunderstood what Mom and Max were telling you,” I said, considering setting my cheeseburger aside to have this discussion with her since it might get heated, but I was so hungry, I kept chewing. “I’m not moving.”“Sorry, sis, but you are. We all are,” she said, defiant as usual. “I know
Have you ever had a dream so vivid and real, you’re pretty sure you must actually be there, even though it doesn’t make any sense that that’s where you’d be--like an alien planet, or the ocean when you live in the desert? In the back of your mind, maybe you know it doesn’t compute, and you think it can’t be real, but it feels so real that you think it might be?
“Do I even want to know why you’re grinning at me like that?” I asked, my voice a gravely whisper.Sam brushed my hair back from my face, his hand resting on my cheek, his thumb caressing my cheekbone. I had to open my eyes now. “
Hunger pains reminded me that I’d slept past dinner, and I needed to use the restroom. I headed out to the hallway to take care of the most urgent concern first and then headed downstairs, expecting to see Grandma either in the living room knitting or in the kitchen. She was sitting by her chair, her knitting needles clinking together as she created a blanket in yellow and orange.
Mom and Max were going back to Great Falls to look for a place to live while they waited for Mom to get that job. They’d made the announcement as we were eating breakfast. All of us except for Gray, that is. She’d been up until the wee hours of the morning listening to music, so chances were she’d be sleeping all day. Max had nailed her window shut while I was sleeping the night before, so there was no way she was getting back out that way. I prayed he came up with no reason to do the same to mine since that was the way Sam had gotten in. Once they moved, I got the impression Grandma wouldn’t mind if he came in the front door and announced to her that he was go
I hadn’t been standing in the forest holding the giant ruby for long when I heard footsteps coming from the direction I’d just come from. I knew it wasn’t Horace. He wouldn’t dare follow me home, but since no one else had been there when I left, so I didn’t know who it was until Joshua appeared on the path in front of me.“Hi,” I s
Grandma was cooking when I got back to the house. I knew that meant she was feeling better because she had only stopped cooking when she’d gotten sick. Before that, it was about all she ever did.“Oh, are you back?” she asked me,