Wolf Unleashed by Jessica Meats

Author:Jessica Meats [Meats, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Guardbridge Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

The pain started at his neck, but it was all-encompassing, shooting through his body. He shook from the shocks as pain screamed along his nerves. He barely heard the voice over the agony that consumed him.

“Stop! Stop! He wasn’t the one who hit me.”

The shocks stopped, but the echo of the pain lingered. His limbs trembled. He was on his hands and knees on the floor of the mill, humans standing all around him, watching him suffer.

“It wasn’t Thomas,” Moody was saying. Thomas realised what this must have looked like to someone who’d missed the start. He’d been partly transformed, standing in front of someone who was bleeding. Cobb must have assumed the worst.

“What the hell happened here?” Cobb asked. He stood there, still with a finger over the button for the collar. The trembling was leaving Thomas’s limbs, but he didn’t stand. He waited to see if the humans would show mercy this once.

“Clint said something stupid,” Moody said, “and I got angry. I hit him. Thomas got between us to break up the fight. He didn’t do anything wrong.”

“He wasn’t violent?” Cobb asked.

It was Clint who answered, speaking in a softer tone than Thomas had yet heard from him.

“No,” he said. “The dog didn’t do anything wrong.”

Cobb glared at them all.

“Get back to work,” he yelled at the onlookers. “This isn’t a wrestling match. You three, any more trouble from any of you and you’re out of here. If you want to fight, you can do it on someone else’s time. You,” he snapped at Clint, “sort your nose out and get back to work.”

He turned and walked away. No apology, of course. Clint waited a few seconds longer, glaring down at Thomas then he turned and walked off towards the toilets. Everyone else had resumed work, but Thomas knew that eyes were still looking in his direction.

Moody offered a hand. Thomas took it and let Moody help him stand.

“I guess I made things worse for you,” Moody said. “I’m sorry.”

Thomas was surprised. Of all the people here, Moody was the one who had least to apologise for. He’d actually hit a guy for insulting him. That didn’t happen.

“Don’t apologise,” Thomas said. “I’ve wanted to punch him since I got here.”

“‘Let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression’,” Moody said. It sounded like a quote, but Thomas didn’t know from what.

He just nodded and went back to work.

Thomas was met with silence every time he passed. Instead of insults, were nervous glances. Even Clint stopped commenting. He returned to work, the blood cleaned up, and his nose probably not broken. He watched Thomas with silent glares. Thomas burned with fury. Humans could fight and it wasn’t taken as a reflection of their whole kind, but all he had to do was snarl and they assumed he was violent.

He quietly got on with his job. Lift, carry, stack wood. Over and over. Thomas went to help load a van, carrying out stacks of panelling and armfuls of fence posts.

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