*Jax*
I smelled her as soon as my foot touched the hallway outside the board room.
A rich, heady smell.. finer than any aroma I’d ever smelled in my entire life. The smell brought heat to my veins and excess saliva to my mouth, and a hunger to my body that I had come to know all too well.
Blood. Colette’s blood.
I could hear Claude trying to speak to me, to grab my arm, to apprise me of the situation, but I was beyond hearing him. I couldn’t hear him.
Every part of my body was focused on getting to Colette.
My ears were frantically listening for her heartbeat, trying to pick it out of the dozens in the house. Before I could stop to think, before I knew what I was doing, I was running at an inhuman speed down the hallway and down the staircase. I didn’t care who saw me.
I had to
