TESSA
I couldn’t wait to get off this boat and take a scalding hot shower. My skin still itched with the faint scent of Rowan’s sheets. I hadn’t had time to shower back at his place because every sound, every creak of the floorboard, had made me paranoid he would stir awake and catch me. I wasn’t going to risk it.
Fortunately, there was only one stop left before we reached Ylarc. The dawn light was spilling gently over the water, throwing shimmers across the horizon.
The ride was rougher than I expected, the boat packed with all kinds of travelers—merchants, night-shift workers, and things that didn’t belong to the werewolf side of the world at all. Fenra was wolf territory, yes, but to reach Ylarc, we had to pass through two distinct islands, each with its own set of rules.
The fir
