“Do not stay out too long,” she said. “It gets cold.”
Keres opened his mouth.
Adeline pointed at him without looking.
“Do not make a joke about keeping her warm,” she said, shuddering for a very good reason.
His mouth closed.
It turned out Adeline was right. Outside, the weather was chilly. Even if it was April, the wind still carried teeth.
Moonlight silvered the trees beyond the cabin and spilled across the yard, catching on patches of lingering frost and the low stone wall that bordered Adeline’s herb garden. Somewhere in the woods, an owl called once, then went quiet, as if it too had sensed the emotional disaster walking under the moon and wanted no part of it.
My three mates formed around me without discussing it.
Aiden on my left.
Thane on my right.
Keres slightly ahead, t
