“Rakon, get the hell over here!” I did not care that I sounded desperate as I mindlinked my best friend. Nor did I care that I felt like the coward he’d defended me from. I needed him now. To keep me from that regrettable path of mistakes he’d spoken of because I sure as hell did not trust any part of me right now to accomplish that all by myself.
I did not even like Draxuin, but that bitter poisonous plant had never smelled so sweet and so alluring as it did now. I was bathed in it the moment the doors to Myrna’s chambers swung open, making me and my wolf almost howl in jubilation. It took me biting down on my lips to keep even the smallest of sounds from escaping as the strange rumblings made by Cerus became a reality right in front of my eyes.
It was not that I had not believed the ma
