There was no way I was letting these jerks get away with this. I needed to make sure Ben didn’t get hurt before I did anything else. I imagined that piece of metal flying at him taking an alternate route, up into the air and over the side of the road, into a field.
The Parkers stopped laughing.
“What’s his name?” I asked Ben as I turned on my healing powers in an attempt to help the poor guy stretched across the ditch with half of his face missing.“Mike Davis,” Ben said, just after he told Grayson the number of the country road we were on. “He’s one of the Parkers’ friends.”
A blur of lights and sirens surrounded us as the sheriff and his deputies blocked off the road on both ends. Sam moved his truck out of the way so that they could get to the accident scene, and some of the deputies who were trained in emergency medical procedures attended to the two hurt men.I wasn’t sure what I could say to them. Did they have any idea that I was a
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.