Honestly, I didn’t hear Max and Morgan pull in. They busted through the door, ready for a fight. I stood, my death grip on the chairs I was leaning against relaxing, third cigarette still in my mouth. Auri was still sitting on the chair. She was pretending to smoke, an unlit cigarette in her mouth. She was holding onto her iced tea that she had refilled for us. I looked at my watch. “It’s been three fucking hours.” “We were in the middle of something Logan! What the hell happened here?” Morgan was taking stock of the house, the table, and Auri. “Yeah, another dead end of the Bloodhunter coven? Almost like it was conveniently laid out to have you busy for a few hours.” I scoffed, turning away from them, I leaned back on the chairs, my eyes roaming over the paperwork in front of me. “How the hell…” I shook my head and reached out, tapping the ash into the ashtray. I realized my cigarette was almost gone and I grabbed another, lighting that one w

One eye cracked open as the sun streamed through the blinds that I forgot to close. Getting up, I rubbed my face. The stubble started to become irritatingly long on my face. I walked into the the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Why did I look so damn tired? Pulling out my shave kit from my bag, I started to lather the shave cream and rub it on my face. For a moment, all I could hear was the sound of the straight razor against my skin. Getting a little ways down my cheek, I rinsed off the razor and continued. Settling into a rhythm.  It didn’t take me too long and I massaged my face with the after shave. I looked in the mirror. I still didn’t like what I was seeing. Being with Auri for the past few days had been wonderful but also had me on edge. As much as Auri being back was the happiest moment, she was still struggling being back. She would jump if you touched her. Now she voiced her displeasure of us wanting to take the s

***Auri’s POV***   At some point, Max picked me up from the ground. He carried me into the house and held me in his arms as I cried. I buried my face in his chest. All this time I had fought. I had tried to survive. Only to watch my mate, my Logan, walk away from me. I knew it was a possibility. That he had moved on and what did I expect? I literally asked him to. But that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt. Everything I was feeling was just my own heart though. I didn’t smell my mate. Didn’t hear him in my mind. The slight shock I would feel when touching him went away after the first few timess. I was cut off from everything that made me a werewolf. I honestly couldn’t imagine myself removing these shackles. After what I had been through, I questioned whether I was even a werewolf anymore. If I deserved Kai anymore. Weeks into my torture I decided I wasn’t. Decided that I would never take these silver reminders off. It burrowed deep in my subconscious that now

“Auri! Dinner is ready!” Max called down from the bottom floor. I was curled up in the window seat of my room. I hadn’t gone downstairs. Morgan even had to come up to say goodbye. He had given me some books in brail and said that if I didn’t want to talk to him, I didn’t have to. But he had left hours ago. Now it was just Max and I. There was a knock on my door but I ignored it. Running my fingers over the words. It had taken some time to adjust but I was back to reading at my normal speed. This book was impossibly fantasy. Getting just about every race incorrect. A far away place, with make believe problems and make believe solutions. The door opened slowly and Max stood in the door. “Auri, you need to eat.” I refused to acknowledge him. Mostly to stop the blush from creeping its way back onto my face. “Now Auri. I won’t ask again.” This time I glared at him. I slammed my book shut and put it on the seat. Swinging my legs off and jump

“No Auri.” Morgan’s voice was firm.“This isn’t just you though. If its a year or two, I can train. Be better. I can…”Morgan stood up and I felt him loom over me, the old vampire presence starting to emanate from him. “I said no and that’s final.”Tears sprung to my eyes, feeling angry and frustrated. “Why not! This is more my fight than it is yours! Why would you deny me that chance?”“Because I’m not losing you again Auri!” Morgan yelled. He was walking away from me.“Do you think I can’t do it?”“No, I don’t think you can!” He turned from where he was walking and yelled at me. Stunned, I stepped back. Max was behind me and his arms held my shaking shoulders.“I think you will die at the hands of him. I think he will whistle and you will die beca