Werewolf by Hair Greg

Author:Hair, Greg [Hair, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: book
Published: 2011-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

17

LillyAnna moved down the hallway as if sleep walking, tears dropping onto the polished hardwood floor. She knocked on Landon’s door.

“Yes?” asked Landon.

“Are you busy? I need to talk,” she said.

“I’m never too busy for you. Come in.”

She tried to dry her red eyes with her hands, but the more she rubbed, the more they welled up. Landon led her to a chair by the window, pulling up another next to her. His hands cradled hers.

“What’s the matter?” he asked.

“I know why I’m this way.”

“What way?”

“A werewolf,” she responded.

“So do I. You were attacked back home in Cincinnati.” He looked down at the floor, becoming frustrated, unable to see where she was going. “I don’t understand.”

“I’m not the only one from Cincinnati,” she said, trying to control her temper. “My life has been changed forever because of him.”

“Because of who?”

She looked him squarely in the eye, saying, “Jamie.”

Landon’s hands slid off of hers as he slumped back in his chair.

“Jamie? Are you sure?”

“His first change was three months ago, on the outskirts of the city where I was driving. It seems that in his confused state, he bit me.”

Landon stood, walking around the chair, and looked out the window. Most of the fires had been put out. A couple buildings still burned, but the flames were under control. He paced across the floor for a minute, what seemed like forever to LillyAnna, finally returning to his chair.

“Really? It was Jamie who created you?”

“Yes,” she said, raising her hand to her head. “I’m getting a headache.”

“Here, lie down on the bed. It’s been a long day.” He looked at the clock by the bed—three a.m. “And a long night. I’ll get you some aspirin.”

Walking over to the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, he returned a second later with two pills and a glass of water.

“Stay with me,” said LillyAnna, taking both pills together.

“Okay. I need to grab some blankets for the sofa.”

“No. Stay with me here,” she said, rubbing the bed beside her.

Landon walked around to her side of the bed, helping her get undressed. He tucked her under the covers, and moved back around to the other side, still in his clothes. Raising the covers, Landon crawled inside. The heat gradually increased as their bodies moved closer together, intertwining. The only light in the room was that which filtered through the curtains from the full moon.

“I want what you want,” said LillyAnna, “but…”

“It’s too soon,” Landon said.

“I think for tonight, I just need to be held. I need to feel another body’s warmth. I need…” She paused.

“I understand.”

“Tell me about you,” she said. “Tell me about your family. How you became like this.”

Landon’s voice lowered as he began to tell the story of his childhood and his family.

He reminisced about the times when his mother, she later told him, would check on him at night, finding him staring out his window into the dark trees beyond their home. It was a kind of sleepwalking. What she didn’t know was that he was seeing something in the trees, something with red eyes.

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