Breaking the Silence: A Werewolf Romance by Teyah Leigh

Author:Teyah Leigh [Leigh, Teyah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Typewriter Pub
Published: 2023-02-16T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Ignoring it, I continued walking. Kota slowed his steps to give me a side glance, checking that I was okay. When I kept going, he stayed at my pace. Another sharp stab to the spine hit right as we entered the salon, but I made sure it was not noticeable on the outside. I’m probably just tired, I reasoned. I was having fun with them, and I did not want to ruin it with some weird pain I could easily handle!

Apparently, this was different. I made it through the hair wash and cut, listening to the girls chatter away and giving hand gestures in response to anything directed at me. The boys stayed near, talking less but still participating. Kota was preoccupied though, I had noticed he kept an eye on me the entire time, but not in the adoring way he usually did. This look was pure concern and protection. He knew. He had to know something was bothering me. I did not meet his eye for most of the hour.

The pain was strange, something I had never felt before, all that time living with Jack. My years of building a high pain tolerance kept me from announcing the discomfort on the outside. But inside, I was about ready to scream by the time the cosmetologist was finishing the final precision cuts.

It started slowly, staying in my lower spine like it had been on the walk over here. But then it grew, crawling up each vertebra until it reached my collarbone. Then it spread down my arms, and I had to fight to keep them from twitching as they rested on the sides of the chair I sat in. The ache was dull at first, but it inched to my fingertips and then traveled down my legs, intensifying at my elbows, wrists, ankles, and knees.

When the cosmetologist announced it was done, asking me how I liked it, I was so ready to dash out of there. I needed fresh air, grass, a forest—that one was a thought that seemed to push through suddenly without my permission. I squirmed as tiny beads of sweat formed at the base of my neck; suddenly, I was very hot. I flew out of the chair and gave the woman a thumbs-up and a strained smile, hoping she could not see through it.

She didn’t because she answered with a laugh. “I’m glad! Thanks so much for coming in today, guys. I hope to see you back sometime!”

She disappeared, and Kota quickly paid at the reception counter. I held my breath and forced myself not to fall over in the process. Jaycee and Dexter were looking at me funny, and Sydney nudged Cole to get his attention. They noticed. They noticed something was wrong. Oh, here we go!

“Are you okay?” Cole asked, coming to stand in front of me.

I nodded tersely, but that just made a strange sound come from my neck.

“Okay, what the hell is going on?” Kota, done paying, growled out. I didn’t even flinch.

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