If you like music while you read, try “I Am Not Afraid” by Tommee Profitt + Wondra. The sound and tone capture the tension of this scene!
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~ JOHN-PAUL ~
“George… Jordan… do us a favor and go back out to the helicopter and wait there?” he said quietly.
Lark’s eyes never left him and he didn’t move. Not yet.
His cousins hesitated. JP clenched his teeth. “Now.”
They both jumped to obey, keeping their heads and eyes averted, rushing from the room. He waited until their footsteps were echoing towards the back of the house before he reached for her.
But Lark’s lip peeled back from her teeth and she snapped at him, missing his hand by a hairsbreadth so that he felt the wind of her movement on his fingers. No wolf missed an easy target like that. She was warning him. If he forced her
