Ruby
The more the night had progressed the darker it had gotten, but I knew that wasn’t a problem for Xavier. He could see and hear things I couldn’t, and he had made a show of having me stand directly in front of him as his eyes transformed to his wolf’s eyes, black like the darkness around us. Since I had run out of the house barefoot, I finally got that piggyback ride from him as we made our way back to the house.
I pressed my cold cheek to his warm shoulder as my body swayed with each step he took.
With my eyes closed, I could see him within my mind, the real him. I smiled as I remembered the feeling of his fur between my fingers and his warm body at my back when I had lain beside him. The sudden onslaught of feelings confused me. Were they real, or was my bond to him creating them?
