Girl Among Wolves 1_Unlikely Magic by Lena Mae Hill

Author:Lena Mae Hill [Hill, Lena Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Speak Now
Published: 2017-06-20T05:00:00+00:00

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I think about telling my sister or mother about Harmon’s visit, but I have too much to sort through. Like how my mother tried to kill me in the woods that night.

Just when I was starting to trust her, to think she might have done something selfless, something for me, I find out this. If I was suspicious of Dad before, it disappears with my new distrust for my mother. I’m not sure if I can even show her the necklace, if she might be infuriated that I took it. So I hide it back inside my shirt and hope she won’t notice the chain. I don’t know what I can tell her anymore.

And there’s another thing. I don’t want to share that moment with anyone. I’ve had crushes before, but this is different. I have to think it over for a few days to even know how I feel about it. Every time Harmon comes into my mind, my skin burns and I have to bite my lip to keep from laughing out loud. I don’t know what it is about him. But it’s not something I could explain, even to Elidi. And that kiss…

I touch my lips and shiver deliciously every time I think of it.

A few weeks go by, and the full moon comes. As always, my family goes out and turns into wolves and howls at the freaking moon. I huddle in my bed, wondering if I’ll still be hiding away during full moons when I’m my mother’s age. I’ll never be able to go out when they’re wolves, even if Harmon lets me out of the attic when he’s leader. It’s too dangerous. I’ll never get married. They’ll want more wolf babies—puppies?—and Mother told me the risk. My only hope is to one day get someone to marry me, have a normal baby, and get kicked out like Dad. To put it mildly, that’s a longshot.

In the morning, I’m woken by the sound of my family arriving. Still half asleep, I don’t pay much attention until a short, guttural scream cuts into my grogginess. I sit up, listen to the scraping sounds downstairs, a short bark, and then whimpering. I throw off my blankets and stumble to the door. But when I emerge from my room, I stop on the tiny landing between my room and Zora’s.

At the bottom of the stairs, in the big, open living area, a handful of people have gathered. They crowd around a smallish wolf, which is stretched out on some kind of wooden stretcher. A thin blanket is draped over its back half, crimson flowering across the fabric. Blood streaks the brown wolf’s fur from snout to ear, down her neck, and across the shoulder.

I cover my mouth and try not to scream. I know it’s not Elidi before she appears from the kitchen. I don’t know how I know, but I do. And then she runs in with a towel and falls to her knees, choking out words through her sobs as she dabs at her sister’s wounds.

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