Highland Wolf by Alicia Montgomery

Author:Alicia Montgomery [Montgomery, Alicia]
Language: eng
Format: E, P, U, B
Published: 2019-10-01T16:00:00+00:00

She woke up feeling disoriented, and for a moment, Julianna thought she was somewhere else.

“Jane?” she called. “Jane, is that you?”

When she opened her eyes and stared up at the canopy of her four-poster bed, it hit her. Jane was gone. Turned to dust by now. So was everyone else she had known within the walls of this grand house. Their faces flashed across her mind. Eleanor. Jeremy. The dowager. William. Rossi. Jane.

Her lungs stopped working, and her chest felt like it was caving in. She opened her mouth, but nothing came out, not even a gasp as that gloomy feeling took over.

Hands clawed at the sheets, pulling them off as she rolled over and landed on the floor with a loud thud. Air rushed into her body, and she could breathe again.

In. Out. In. Out.

As oxygen filled her lungs, she realized where she was. And when she was.

She closed her eyes again.

Some might say she had some form of PTSD from her time travel experiences. Maybe she needed some professional help, but how could she explain to a shrink—or anyone, really—that she was feeling depressed because she met some people who had become dear to her, then they were gone in a flash?

It was silly anyway. They all lived full lives and then they died. That was how the world worked. It sucked for her that she had felt close to them, and now they were gone. But she had to move on. It’s okay to miss them, Reed had said.

But some days, it was just too hard, and she couldn’t let that dark, depressive feeling take over because she didn’t want to lose control. It had been bad before, but today had been the worst. Even her wolf, her constant companion since she was thirteen years old, didn’t know why she was feeling this way. It didn’t understand why these memories were making her feel so sad. Maybe she should go home and just leave everything behind.

The alarm on her phone going off jolted her out of the deep recesses of her mind. Slowly, she got up and opened her suitcase to get ready for dinner.

A shower and fresh change of clothes had helped somewhat. Hopefully it wasn’t a formal dinner, as she put on a simple pencil-cut skirt and a green silk blouse. After applying some makeup, she headed downstairs to the library, which thankfully, was still in the same place as before. The Alpha, Reed, and Elise were there, talking to a couple of people that she guessed were members of the clan. Duncan was absent, but it was early still for dinner.

“Are you all right, Julianna?” Elise asked when they found themselves alone, as the Alpha wanted to show Reed some important document.

“Huh?” Did she sense something was off? “Me? Yeah, I’m good.”

The hybrid frowned. “I know it can’t be easy for you. It wasn’t for Reed.” She glanced over at her husband. “We went to visit the graves this afternoon.”

She swallowed. “How was it?”

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