The moment that he bit her, I felt it. I felt it more vividly than I could ever have imagined I would feel anything. And the only thing that was going through my head in that moment, was why? Why would he have gone ahead and bitten her, when I had made sure that he understood that he was supposed to be protecting her? Admittedly, I had never given Cerberus a task like that, a task where he wasn’t supposed to be the scariest thing that someone could ever imagine. I should have been proud of him for lasting as long as he did, for not doing something sooner.
But the problem now, was that I needed to find her. I had been planning to take the hellhound after her tonight, if she hadn’t contacted me back in the way that a normal person would have done. But now, there was a clock ticking, one th
