DAMIEN She isn’t what I expected. Not at all. And now she’s looking at me with those soft, heavy eyes after what we did last night. The kind of look that sticks to your skin. We walk through the forest holding hands, quiet, no rush. For once, my head is clear. No noise. No violence. Sky’s presence settles something ugly and restless inside me. She calms me in a way nothing else ever has. The plan was simple at first. Leave her in the woods. Walk away. Disappear. That’s what I do. But she’s got some kind of pull on me. I don’t know how it works, only that it’s working. It’s turning me into someone else. Someone who walks her back to her dorm because it feels wrong not to. It’s Sunday. There’s a Shadow Fang pack meeting later at the Long Island office. The thought drops heavy in my g

