KAEL
I wanted to find every person who’d ever mocked her for that stutter and tear their world apart. My wolf, Blade, was pacing behind my ribs, snarling at the memory of her saying her mother called her voice a "nuisance."
I kept my ears tuned to the woods. We were safe for the night, but tomorrow, we’d have to put miles between us and everyone we know.
"I'm curious about something," I said, tearing off a piece of bread as I watched her. "I get why you don't talk now but why do you pretend to be a boy too?"
She gripped the pen, and scribbled some words down the held it up:
NO ONE LOOKS TWICE. NO ONE… TOUCHES. IT'S SAFE.
The implication hit me like a physical blow to the gut. I swallowed the snarl rising in my throat, my pulse thrumming with a protective fury I could barely con
