Those Red Eyes v

~ For days, Penny wandered around the house in a fugue state. She spent hours sitting in one place, staring at nothing in particular. She barely ate. Only came out of bed when he carried her. It was painful watching her punish herself. Her back was healed, but the wounds went deeper than that. Deeper than he could reach to heal. This she had to do on her own.

At night Penny laid awake, staring into the darkness of her room. Heavy drapes at her window blocked out the sun by day, and the moon at night. What it couldn't block out were Black's mournful howls. Or the screaming in her head. Lochlan did all he could to comfort her. He could stop the dreams that had her fighting herself awake at night He could numb the guilt that rode her hard. But he couldn't erase what had happened, not really. He could compel her to eat, to forget, but he couldn't give those families back the loved ones they had lost.

Penny knew she could ask Lochlan to make the pain go away. He would do