Chapter 11
I woke to cold air, a solitary pallet, and my sister shrieking. “I’ve been stabbed!”
So Gunner had gone to deal with my assailants after all. And one of them must have snuck through our defenses to return the favor....
Those thoughts tumbled through my head as I wrenched the door open, only to find Kira standing on her bed in a tank top and undies, blood running down the insides of her thighs. She hadn’t been stabbed. If I didn’t miss my guess, she’d merely become a woman, starting her menstrual cycle for the very first time.
Which should have been my cue to commence mothering. But instead...I froze.
Froze and flashed back to my own first period. To hiding in the bathroom and clutching my belly while my father struggled to take care of an infant without letting us know he’d
