Nyx
For ten hours, we traveled up the mountain and didn’t see a single wolf. As soon as we stopped, I shifted back into human form and shivered. My wolf was liking her freedom a little too much, and I was having a hard time retaining control when she was out.
Tessa shifted with me, and we dressed. Pulling the cream out of the pack, she gestured to my knee. “It’s starting to ache again, isn’t it? You should have let him break it so it could mend properly.”
I settled on a wooden log and took the cream while she started to make a fire. “Said by a woman who’s never been under the hand of a man.” I tried not to moan as the cream started to warm up my knee. “I can’t think of any situation where I would willingly let another man break a bone in my body.”
Looking up, Tessa frowned. “Who hurt y
