Moon Called
“It was hot, if not tasty, and I was hungry enough to eat almost anything.The young man working the till looked as though he’d have liked to ask questions, but I cowed him with my stare. People around here know better than to get into staring contests. I wasn’t a were-anything, but he didn’t know that because he wasn’t either. It wasn’t nice to intimidate him, but I wasn’t feeling very nice.I needed to do something, anything, and I was stuck waiting here all morning. Waiting meant worrying about... what Jesse was suffering at the hands of her captors and thinking of Mac and wondering what I could have done to prevent his death. It meant reliving the old humiliation of having Bran tell me the man I loved was using me. I wanted to be out of Aspen Creek, where the memories of being sixteen and alone tried to cling no matter how hard I flinched away; but obedience to Bran was too ingrained—especially when his orders made sense. I didn’t have to be nice about it, though.I’d started back to the motel, my breath raising a fog and the snow crunching beneath my shoes, when someone called out my name.“Mercy!”I looked across the highway where a green truck had pulled over—evidently at the sight of me, but the driver didn’t look familiar.MoreLess
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