Harry by Marie Fraser

Author:Marie Fraser [Fraser, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Harry woke to his clothes soaked in sweat. Beside him, Katie slept quietly. Getting up he tiptoed from the room and down the stairs. When he reached the bottom, his heart gave a hard squeeze in his chest. In his heart he knew, when the woman in is dream had told him to go, that was the moment his mother had died.

Hurt spiraled through him for his loss. How would he ever live without the woman who’d saved him? Unable to stop it, his wolf came forward, howling as the pain of his loss peaked, hard and high. He could hear commotion upstairs, but it didn’t stop him from grieving.

“Easy now,” Javier was saying. He heard Katie’s scream and turned to see her, her eyes huge with shock and a hard mixture of fear. “It’s not what it seems.”

“So there’s not a huge wolf sitting in your living room?”

“Oh, no,” Javier chuckled. “That’s real, but let me ask you, have you seen Harry this morning?”

“No,” Katie shuddered.

“He’s grieving.”

Harry watched his dad pull Katie into a hug and it soothed him to know they could lean on one another. It only made him love her more, that she would cry for a woman she’d only just met. “I’m sorry,” she was saying. “I’m so sorry she’s gone.”

“She’s on to bigger and better things,” Javier smiled, wiping his eyes. “Always did have to be first.”

Katie gave a watery chuckle and hugged the man again. Turning she stared at the large black wolf who sat near Teresa’s body. Its eyes were intent on her and she couldn’t quite suppress the shudder, although she wasn’t so sure it was from fear. There was something beautifully majestic about the massive animal, even though he looked as though he could eat her and still have room for more.

“He won’t hurt you,” Javier said, stepping down the rest of the stairs and going to pet the wolf. “It was a shock to us as well, when we first learned that Harry was like this, this beautiful, wondrous animal.

“Wait, are you trying to tell me that animal is Harry?”

“At first it scared us, to be near him when he was like this. But then he showed us his crew and we knew that Harry being like this wasn’t odd at all, but an incredible gift. He doesn’t show this side of himself often, but I think he needed to grieve Teresa like this. He needed his animal self to be able to express its own sort of sadness.”

“But…how do you talk to him when he’s like that?”

“We don’t talk, per se,” Javier smiled. “It’s more of a way of communication. He has a unique knack for understanding what we say, even if he can’t talk back when he takes that form.”

“Hi,” Katie said, her voice shaking a little as she stepped closer to the wolf. “Does he always look like he wants to eat people?”

“No,” Javier laughed. “I’m pretty sure that’s just you, doll.”

Katie blushed then, feeling foolish. When Javier left the room, she just stood there, waiting.

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