Raffaele didn’t understand what was going on. First, Vanessa sounded like she didn’t want to see him, and now she was acting all irrational, fighting him, coming so close to hurt herself. More than once, he had to throw himself between her wolf and a tree, or she would have slammed against it. What had happened to her? Was it something he did or said and now she was mad at him? The entire situation was just… weird.
In the end, he wasn’t fast enough, and she got herself hurt when she fell to the ground, hitting some rocks. He could hear her wolf yelping in pain, and it broke his heart. He got closer, pushing his nose into her side to comfort her, but she just laid there and didn’t get up. He walked around to look at her face and saw blood dripping down her forehead. Feeling helpless, he li
