Chapter 27
The forest was so much harder to walk through two-legged, with neither shoes nor clothes to protect sensitive human body parts. Still, it wasn’t pain that raised my blood pressure. Instead, the infuriating part was my mentor, who turned out to have been keeping secrets from me all along.
“So you knew I could use werewolf blood just like you could use kitsune blood,” I stated, pausing for only a second to pry a minuscule thorn out of the pad of my big toe before pressing onward after my companion. “How could you not mention that when Kira got sicker and sicker? Didn’t you think it might help?”
“I wouldn’t say ‘help’ exactly,” Elle countered, leaping over a fallen tree as agilely as if she was still in wolf form. I didn’t realize how much I was dragging until I tried to follow.
