All Chapters of Slave to the Wolf King: Chapter 351 - Chapter 360

~ JESSE (two days later) ~‘Now, you take the flows this time and—’ ‘Cazz! No! I’m not good at this part.’ ‘There’s only one way to get better. Isn’t that why we’re here?’ ‘Yes, but… if I get it wrong I could kill the poor thing.’ ‘Better to kill a chicken now, than an innocent human next week, right?’ I hated it when he was right. The truth was, I knew I needed to stop avoiding taking control when we were wielding. But I was already exhausted, a

~ CASIMIR ~I’d intended to take Jesse back to the caves for the evening meal, but I knew faltering confidence when I saw it. And I knew if we stopped now and let her rest on the back of that blow, she wouldn’t recover in time for what we had to do.So, much as I hated to do it, I pushed her.Reaching back into the link to find Ghere, I asked him to arrange for food and refreshment to be brought to us, along with some pillows and blankets for comfort so I could feed her without sitting in the dirt. But I didn’t let her know I was doing it. As far as she knew, I just removed the chicken’s carcass from view, then kept her in the power, both of us holding it together, but splitting the four remaining chickens so that she was compelling two, while I compelled the others.

~ JESSE ~I was still a little self-conscious when Cazz made love to me in the outdoors. I loved it, but I knew he’d had guards posted and patrolling, and since the wolves senses were so acute… but I made myself let go and just enjoy him. It had been so precious to see how excited he was about the baby, and his thrill at being recognized.He told me he’d found the link with our child, which just about made me cry. I tried to do it, but either I wasn’t skilled enough, or our baby wasn’t, because I couldn’t find him.When we’d made love and were just laying under the trees, I was half-asleep in Cazz’s arms and my mind drifted—the baby, my family, Cazz’s tension about taking me

~ CASIMIR ~“…who can we trust? I don’t say that flippantly. We know that we’ve cleared the ranks of those who are actual traitors. But this will take wolves capable of deception and brutality. Wolves that won’t lose their nerve under pressure. And the females…”Jesse licked her lips and shared a look with Reeca. “That’s the part I feel so uneasy about.”I looked at her sharply. “You don’t believe they can be trusted?”“No! no, I didn’t mean that. I meant… Well, I’ll speak from a human perspective: We can’t always know how we’ll react if we get into a dangerous position with a guy. Are the female wolves all

~ CASIMIR ~I stood in the cell of Jesse’s father, nose wrinkled against the stench of a man who had given up on caring for himself, and shook my head.I wanted to shake him.He lay in the cot, dirty sheets, dirty blankets, dirty clothes, dirty man, and stared at the wall. I would almost have had compassion for him. But then he opened his mouth.“Never saw it…” he murmured. “Let myself get distracted by the fucking boys. She was the prize all along, and now…”He began to weep quietly and I snorted the air from my nose.