Wolf's Choice by Aimee Easterling

Author:Aimee Easterling [Aimee Easterling]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Published: 2023-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

During the days and weeks that followed, Honor and I kept each other updated. She offered suggestions for dealing with Ambrose, none of which worked any better than the ones I’d come up with solo. And I offered what little information I had about Mariana’s personality to go with the lack of evidence the planted cameras had turned up.

Mostly, though, I filled my time waiting for Ambrose to nap then seizing upon Jack’s fleeting presence. We enjoyed plenty of kissing and caressing between cell bars, each moment overshadowed by the knowledge that Ambrose could pop back up without warning. We also talked as much as we kissed, shared words somehow feeling just as necessary as physical contact did.

“You’re thinking about Tru again,” Jack observed one night when the moon had dwindled down to the thinnest crescent, a phase during which Ambrose seemed less inclined or perhaps less able to make his presence known.

“How can you tell?”

“You get a line right here.”

Handcuffs prevented him from tracing the spot between my eyebrows with his fingers, the physical restraint something Jack continued to demand whenever I came within arm’s reach. But he’d gotten quite adept at using other parts of his body to perform the role of fingers. Now, his nose caressed my skin almost as lightly as his breath feathered across my cheekbone. “Tell me,” he suggested.

So I did. I told him how ruminating on my crimes as a full-on kami woke new feelings inside me. Remorse but also something more solid. An urge to remedy past harms.

“I can’t bring people back from the dead,” I continued. “But I stole so many memories, from Tru especially. I devoured most of them—they don’t exist any longer. Her first kiss is still inside me though. And now that I understand what losing that memory means...”

My voice trailed off. Jack had lost our own first kiss, would lose his knowledge of another tonight if that enticing dimple’s attractiveness was anything to go by.

“So give it back to her.”

“I can’t,” I countered, remembering how I’d tried returning a memory to Jack a week ago. I’d pushed it toward him rather than yanking it away, then had watched as the tiny glowing orb bounced off his skin and popped out of existence. Spirits might be able to steal energy from each other, but Jack had never been a disembodied spirit. The memory I’d tried to return to my mate was gone now, no longer something even I could turn over and consider inside my own head.

Tru had been a disembodied spirit for a century though. And the body I now inhabited was as much hers as it was mine. Perhaps that made memories more likely to transfer between us?

Plus, if Tru’s kiss disappeared into the void, was that really any worse than hoarding it as my own?

I was already separating Tru’s first kiss from my own memories when Jack asked, “What can I do to help?”

There was nothing he could do, and no way for me to know whether the transfer would work either.

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