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3. Choices Are i
~ The creaks stopped.
Penny held her breath, waiting for the force that would send the door flying to splinters off its hinges. She looked down at Lochlan, who was still unconscious. To Black, who could barely hold up his head. The wolf was wounded and needed help. Seeing him like that, unable to move... Penny swallowed a lump in her throat as a new realization formed in her mind. She had followed a wolf. A wolf she thought had been Black. Maybe Lochlan had a few tricks up his sleeve that she didn't know about. Or maybe it just wasn't Black she had followed in the dark woods, in the middle of a rainstorm with no questions. Penny swallowed again.
Not that she was eager to die, but waiting for it to happen when she knew it was so close was nerve-racking. Lochlan stirred, changing back to his human form just as there was a knock at the door. Penny shushed him when he groaned.
"There is someone out there," she whispered, going over to kneel by him. She cast
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