Snippet

Because all of you have been so patient, encouraging and awesome. I thought I'd give you a snippet from one of the last chapters. Something between (gasp) Kai and the Lycaon.

“How does it feel?”
Surprised by the question, and angry too, Kai had to take a moment to squeeze his hold on his Wolf. He closed his eyes and took deep breaths. How does it feel? He couldn’t find the words to explain the constant shift from being crazy mad to aching emptiness. He felt like his body was taken apart and put back wrong, like his soul was ripped apart. “It…hurts.”
“Do you hate her for doing what she did?”
That was an easy question. “No.”
The Lycaon’s dark eyes moved over his face. “Is that really your answer, or the effect of the mating?”
“Mine.”
“Why aren't you angry?”
For a second Kai was ready to give up on this conversation but then he saw something in the Lycaon’s expression that told him that he wasn't just spouting out meaningless questions; this question was actually important to him. He supposed that the Lycoan was worried about his state of mind, of what would happen if he saw Lei again. “I saw her face…after. She’s hurting, too.”
The Lycaon’s mind went sideways, Kai’s words taking him back to when Mey had exercised her powers on him.
—dark brown eyes glimmering with tears, anger flushing her cheeks, her voice sliding inside him, rolling under his skin; insidious and angry…and hurt—
It took a while for him to see the hurt underneath the anger, it took a while for him to forgive her. To understand. To regret.
He watched the boy who had figured out in moments what he took years to do and felt…shame.