Chapter 96

Mia's POV

"What the fuck?" Lycidas whispered, still staring in shock at the wolf on the ground. That was the tenth time he said the sentence, and he said it one more time. "Seriously, what the fuck, Mia?"

He looked at me with a questioning look in his eyes. It was as though he had never seen me really well till then.

The cocky grin widened into a smile of pure joy.

"Hey," I said, shaking him slightly. "You can't say thanks?"

H didn't. Instead, his face quickly morphed from one of shock to the glower he usually had when he spoke to me.

"Why should I?" he said, wiping himself down. He paused in the motion of trying to wipe out a stubborn drop of blood from his garment and looked me straight in the eye.

No way! No way he could keep that face and ask that question.

"I just saved your life, dumbhead," I growled.

It was a real growl this time, with my voice going deeper than it had ever gone and a little bestial. I could see still feel the energy from my wolf in me, pumping me up.