Chapter 18 - Knox

I had just got out of the shower with Lilah having made the most of an empty house, when I heard a loud howl. That sounded near to our house. That seemed odd, I quickly walked to our bedroom balcony, overlooking the back of our house, a towel wrapped around my waist, and Lilah followed in a towel. I saw what looked to be a wolf running toward the forest. That would make sense, given the noise, but wait…. That looked like Aspen, Gabe’s wolf……..

“That’s Aspen” Lilah whispers, she had already reached my side, and was looking where I was.

“Something doesn’t add up, he should be with Esme, not shifting into his wolf and running off into the forest” I say.

“Link him, tell him to come back, Knox. If something happened he should not be alone. What if she rejected him when they were alone” Lilah says.

A feeling of fury rages through me. Would she have done that?! She had run on him when they initially met, had she been too embarrassed to reject him with us all there, and the fact