Moon of the Terrible (Seasons of the Moon) by Reine SM

Author:Reine, SM [Reine, SM]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Red Iris Books
Published: 2012-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

Bloodhounds

When they were less than an hour from the house, Crystal insisted on making one more pit stop. Just an hour away, and she couldn’t hold it.

“Women,” Abel muttered, leaning on the hood of the van while he waited. Trevin had gone inside for another burrito, but Vanthe stuck around to keep him company.

“No kidding,” Vanthe agreed. He pulled off his knitted cap, rubbed the coarse blond hair on his head, and then tugged it back on. “I heard Scott and Levi talking before we left. They said that Seth was going to your old house.”

“Yeah. But my family’s not there.”

“Where are they? I mean, I know that Seth’s your brother, but what about mom? Dad?”

Abel stuffed his hands under his armpits to keep them warm, even though he hadn’t really been cold a moment before. “They’re both dead. Killed by werewolves.”

Vanthe clicked his tongue against the back of his teeth. “That’s rough.”

Abel thought back on the day his mother died. Eleanor had stabbed him with a knife before she went down. She used his transformation into werewolf as her excuse for attacking, but Abel felt like she had been stabbing him in smaller, less-literal ways for years.

Constantly showing preference to Seth, her precious baby. Ignoring him. Being condescending and outright hateful.

And yet, until she fell from the cliff, some part of him had still hoped that they could be a family again someday. A very small part.

“I guess,” he said, even though it had been too long since Vanthe spoke.

The other werewolf lifted an eyebrow. “You guess?”

Abel shrugged. He kicked a pile of snow. “Things were tough between us. We had problems, but… she was my mom.” He gave a stiff shrug. “You know?”

“Yeah. I know.”

They shared a long moment of understanding silence.

Trevin and Crystal came back out. She attracted stares in her micro-shorts and midriff in the falling snow. She grinned at Abel. He didn’t smile back.

“All right,” he said. “Let’s go.”

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