The Wolfborne Saga Box Set by Cheree Alsop

Author:Cheree Alsop [Alsop, Cheree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“I’m starting to believe you were raised in a fighting lair,” Ceren said. She lifted a hand at my frustrated glare and said, “In my defense, it’s a bit hard to walk noisily into a room as a ghost. I let you know if I figure that one out.”

I released my breath in a rush and turned to sit with my back against Virgo’s couch. The sound of his rhythmic heartbeat let me know that at least I hadn’t awoken him.

“You have a heart,” Ceren said after a few minutes of silence in which I had looked everywhere but at her.

I had no idea how long she had been there. Her words told me it had been long enough.

“I’m alive. Of course I have a heart,” I replied shortly before thinking about how my words might hurt her.

Instead of taking offense, she gave a little sigh which probably meant so much to a human but was merely confusing to a werewolf, and she replied, “No, silly. You care about him and what happens to him.”

I had never been called silly in my entire life, and now I had been called it twice by the same girl. It didn’t matter that she was a ghost. The label still rankled the pride I, as a werewolf, had seldom had rankled. I wasn’t sure how to take it.

“What does caring have to do with anything?” I asked in a defensive tone I couldn’t take back.

She crossed her arms and looked down at me as if I was a petulant child. “You should care. That’s what makes us human.”

I shot back with the obvious, “I’m not human.”

I thought she would argue about how everyone has feelings and rights. It was the sort of thing Mrs. Willard and Mrs. Stein would say and that I had heard them tell the other werewolves at least a few times.

Instead, the ghost girl’s expression fell and she turned away from me. When she spoke, I could hear the strain of controlling her emotions. Awareness that I registered her feelings without seeing her face was subdued by her words.

“I keep hoping all of this will turn out to be a dream. You turning into a wolf, me a ghost. And then there’s those witches, not to mention the monster. All of this doesn’t make sense, so I tell myself I’m just surviving it until I wake up.” She sniffed, then said, “But I’m not going to wake up, am I?”

I didn’t know what to say. Nothing I had learned in the Lair had ever prepared me for discussing reality with a ghost. I wished there had been a class on that. The sarcastic voice in the back of my mind noted that it should have been called, ‘Coping with Moping: Accepting your Life after Death’. I’m sure Professor Shipley would have killed the class, figuratively.

Instead of voicing my thoughts that I attributed to my lack of sleep and stress from the night’s battle with the jakhin, I said as gently as I could, “I don’t think so.

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