ELIAS
I wasn’t expecting her to get on the bed so easily. I was sure she would have insisted on taking the couch. However, Mina just climbed in and laid down on the side next to the wall.
Honestly, it threw me off.
“I used to sleep with animals in the forest when Rowena kicked me out,” she said casually, as though that explained her willingness to sleep next to me.
I also laid down, crossing my arms in front of my chest before turning toward her. “So, you’re saying I’m an animal?”
“Technically,” she answered without missing a second, “you are. You’re a werewolf.”
I huffed out a laugh. However, as soon as the laugh faded, her earlier words hit me.
“Rowena kicked you out often?”
She hummed lightly, her eyes drifting shut. “When she didn’t like how I breathed wrong. Or
