Feral is the Night by Leeah Taylor

Author:Leeah Taylor [Leeah Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leeah Taylor
Published: 2022-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

“Just find me a change of fucking clothes for her,” I bark out at Cooper.

I’m not sure what blood is hers, Ferals’, or Jay’s. She’s drenched in it and I can’t get her to say anything.

“Berk, look at me.”

It’s as if the moment she pulled the trigger, her mind checked out and she went somewhere else. Far away.

A fist full of clothes appeared beside me. “Here.”

I look up before taking them and Josie is staring at me, white as a ghost. “Thanks.”

She nods with a similar far off look. It never really hits me how important someone is in a group until I see the aftermath when they’re gone. I didn’t see, or comprehend all my father was to the pack until he was gone and the pack nearly spiraled out of control. If it weren’t for Cooper keeping me on the rails, the pack probably wouldn’t be left.

I cradle her chin between my fingers and tilt her head back to inspect the bruised cut across her cheekbone. It takes everything in me to suppress the growl.

I’ll kill him.

Slowly.

No, I’ll almost kill him. Slowly. Let him heal and do it again.

“Berkely, talk to me.”

It’s the same blank stare she’s had since pulling the trigger. I’m kicking myself for letting her do it when I should have taken the gun from her and done it myself. Protect her from it.

Cooper kneels down beside her and opens a first aid kit. “Couple of the guys are working on moving the trees. Not waiting till morning.”

“Good. Put as much distance between us and here.”

“Berk.” Cooper makes another attempt but gets the same blank nothing. He dabs at the cut on her cheek and we exchange glances. “Remember senior homecoming? Hmm?” He tips her head back and continues treating the cut. “You and Carver were at each other’s throats. I was ready to wash my hands of both of ya.”

God, senior year was rough. Berkeley was impossible and now I can admit being just as horrible, but back then I couldn’t see the forest for the trees.

Cooper laughs. “Never occurred to us you two were in mate bond hell. Think they’d mention that part.” He says it so conversationally, as if ten more people weren’t slaughtered on our watch or Berkeley wasn’t sitting here in shock because of it. “Come on, Berk, you remember? You dragged me to every dress shop for the tightest, lowest-cut dress you could get away with.”

I never knew that. Back then I’d have hit him for letting her do it, but now I can smile, grateful for the memory at all. Back then most of the kids our age were drowning in their own bullshit and angst while the three of us were glued at the hip, taking on whatever life threw at us.

There were no regrets. We made mistakes, fucked up, and owned every single one. Then turned around and made all new ones.

“It was red,” she whispers in the smallest voice. “And too tight.”

“Yep.” Cooper smiles and nods.

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