The Night Has Teeth by Kat Kruger

Author:Kat Kruger [Kruger, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780988106703
Google: L9DoMgEACAAJ
Amazon: B009GN0Y2G
Publisher: Fierce Ink Press Co-Op Ltd.
Published: 2012-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

13. Weighty Ghost

“How was your chat with Monsieur Boguet?” Boadicea asks as she steps out of the elevator and walks toward me.

I shrug, not knowing what to say. All I really want is to get out of here as quickly as possible. Her eyes appraise me. It’s an uneasy feeling to be looked over by a werewolf. Even after knowing them for a few weeks now, it still feels like being left vulnerable and stripped of all my defenses.

“What say we get you home?”

“Yes!” I blurt out eagerly.

She crosses her arms.

“That sounded really desperate, didn’t it?”

“Ill-mannered is more like it,” she tells me, but the smile she’s withholding tells me we’re copacetic.

She hands me my fall coat and I shrug into it, instantly comforted by its familiarity. I’m surprised that it survived the evening but can’t bother asking how. She cinches the belt of her green wool coat as I follow her to the elevator, which we take down to the parking garage. It’s fifty floors down. As I slouch against the steel wall, I glance over at Boadicea. Her posture is perfect, which makes me feel a bit self-conscious, but not enough to do anything about it. I’m simply too tired. My whole life has been upended, and as each moment passes, it seems to be spinning far beyond my control.

“Boguet said he gave you all a second chance at life,” I say, my voice reverberating around us. “What did he mean?”

She continues to look at the doors in front of us, but I catch her jawline clenching slightly.

“Did I cross a line?”

Giving me a furtive, sidelong glance she answers, “No, I just haven’t thought about it for a very long time.”

“Were you in trouble?”

She nods slightly, almost subconsciously. “In a way, yes.”

There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious. Real life isn’t made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.

“Death is rather troublesome,” she says.

The words resonate. I don’t know what to say.

“I was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia.” The words come out like bullets shot out into the tin box, ringing in my ears. “Cancer. In my blood cells. I’d been fighting it for over a year. When Monsieur Boguet came to me with his offer, I’d already been told that I had only six months to live.”

Six months. What would I do if I were given that short time? What could anyone do in her situation? I can only imagine what cancer inflicts on a human body. The chemo. Her luxurious strawberry blonde hair, probably gone. Who wouldn’t embrace a second chance? Wouldn’t I?

“He explained his work as a geneticist and told me there was a way that I could rid myself of the cancer, reset my body in a way,” she goes on.

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