Chapter 37

Maren

I didn’t go back out into the diner after Kaelen held me in that kitchen. My body was trembling too much, my mind replaying those silver eyes in the glass like a stuck record. And the voice—liquid, smooth, alien—still hummed faintly in the corners of my skull.

When my shift ended, I walked home on autopilot. My wolf padded restlessly in my head the entire way.

You’re too quiet, she complaine