Throne to the Wolves_An Urban Fantasy Novel by J. A. Cipriano

Author:J. A. Cipriano [Cipriano, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

13

“I need to think,” I said because the room was suddenly too small and didn’t have enough oxygen in it. Justin was standing too close. So was his mom, so was everyone, and oh my god why was everyone yelling at me?

I backed up, nearly tripping over the stupid oak end table and knocking over a Tiffany lamp. It spun as it hit the carpet and lay there like a toppled tree. Then I bolted from the room like a rabbit. I couldn’t do this. I couldn’t. Did they know what they were asking? Did they know who I was? I was the fraking girl at the D&D table who rolled snake eyes when virtually any attack would kill the vampiric half-dragon tarrasque lich. Total party kill would be an amazing understatement.

How could I decide between the fate of the werewolves and my own clan? I couldn’t. I couldn’t do it.

I hit the door, fumbling at the knob as Justin called after me. I didn’t hear what he said. His words were lost under the screaming in my brain. Was I seriously going to have to choose between saving the people who had hunted me down, who had dragged my people screaming from their beds in the middle of the night and my clan’s plan of vengeance? It seemed insane on the surface, even if I ignored how either decision would lead to death, chaos, and destruction. I couldn’t decide… I couldn’t choose who would live and die.

The door swung open in a burst of frigid air, and I stepped into the dimly lit hallway to find myself staring at Laura. She was leaning against the wall facing the door and inspecting her fingernails. As I stepped through the door, she raised one eyebrow at me. The blood drained from my face. The breaker was watching? What was I going to do?

As she pushed off the wall and came toward me, I swallowed hard, trying to find my magic so I could blow her away and escape. Her hand came up and as I reached for the phaser, her hand flew by my ear, shoving the door shut behind me. Something thudded into it a moment later, but Laura held it closed as the smell of melting steel and burning wood hit my nose.

She had saved me? Why?

Before I could ask her, I heard Justin again. He pounded at the door and called my name, but I couldn’t register it. I didn’t want this. I wanted to go back to my games, to my comic books, to my friends. It wasn’t because I especially liked my life, but my life had been relatively safe and relatively easy. With my friends, the most I ever had to think about was what nerdy sweatshirt I was going to wear to work. This? This was too much. I didn’t want anyone to die.

Only.

Only I did want the werewolves to die.

I knew it in the secret little part of my brain. The one little corner of my mind I never let see the light of day.

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