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Chapter Ten
Cora
Reading the message from Neil,made Cora lightheaded. The world began tilting, and she put one hand to her temple, trying to right her vision.
How did he find me here? she wondered.
Her hands started trembling.
This can’t be happening, she thought. Not here. Not now.
Not when I was just getting used to not looking over my shoulder.
She could hear her blood rushing through her ears, her vision beginning to narrow. Ash roared and went after the kid who’d delivered the letter, but she could barely hear him as she read and reread the note.
Love and kisses!she read, over and over again.
This asshole, she thought. She crumpled the heavy envelope in her hand, the fancy paper a reminder that Neil was rich — and he thought that since his parents had money, he could get away with anything he wanted.
Love and kisses!
“Fuck you,” Cora growled at the note. “Fuck you and your fancy paper and your sports car and your boat and especially fuck your sense of goddamned entitlement!”
“Cora?” asked Hunter’s voice from behind her. He squeezed her shoulders again.
She exhaled, hard.
“Sorry, not you,” she said. “It’s this asshole. He’s been... well, it’s kind of a long story,” she said.
“Can I see it?” Hunter asked.
Cora turned to face him and handed over the card, crossing her arms firmly in front of her chest. Hunter read it quickly and then held it up to his nose, inhaling deeply.
Despite her towering rage, Cora raised her eyebrows. She hadn’t been expecting him to smell it.
“Anything?” she asked.
Hunter shook his head. “Just smoke. It’d been near the bonfire for long enough to obscure anything else I might be able to smell.”
Cora opened her mouth, only to hear Ash roar, and she looked over toward him.
Just as she found him, he transformed.
Cora gasped. It was like Ash had simply exploded into fur and teeth and claws, and where he’d been standing a moment before was an enormous grizzly bear, its fur the exact color of Ash’s hair.
“Holy shit,” she whispered, so surprised that for a second, she forgot how angry she was.
Hunter stroked her hair and chuckled.
“He’s probably going to try and track whoever left you the note,” he said. “Bears have very good noses.”
“I’ve never seen someone shift before,” Cora said, wonderingly. “Only on TV and stuff.”
“First time for everything, I guess,” Hunter said.
He read the note again, shaking his head. Cora could see the muscles in his jaw flexing.
“Ex-boyfriend?” he asked.
