Trick
Kali fell asleep in minutes, as if she hadn’t experienced a horrific attack mere hours before. Maybe it was exhaustion, or maybe it was the chamomile tea my mother gave her that may or may not have been laced with some mild pain pills because Kali had rejected everything Gabby wanted to offer her.
Or maybe it was the mistaken belief that she was safe in her bed.
The moonlight filtered over her soft features, and fury and fear rose inside me all over again. These were emotions that I’d barely felt in years, and yet, with Kali, I couldn’t stop feeling them.
Today, she was almost taken from me. If Axel and his pack hadn’t been there when they were, there was no telling if I’d have been able to reach her in time. My mother would have died trying to protect her, and they could have dr
