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"She’s right," Desandra told rass-fed Angus to me So kind of your fiancé to tenderize it"

That was it I was done I just didn’t even care anymore

I marched er sprawled inher tail at a ss around her brilliant white fur I circled Dali and the butterflies and went inside Curran sat on a couch in the living room He was back in his human skin The couch was covered in blood That was fine I was having second thoughts about the color anyway

I sat next to hi It was one of those things I would never forget It was imprinted in my brain Curran’s control was absolute, so when he opened the door and the feral lethal monster shot out and reveled in unrestrained destruction, it made your blood run cold He’d had less outlet than usual since we nized what he was If he wanted so, he had only to pick up the phone and people would run to do his bidding Here, he was trying his best to be a good considerate neighbor To be a normal hu other suburban fa I hadn’t fully understood how hard it was for him until now

It was over People saw it They stopped and stared, and there was no going back And I couldn’t be happier about it

"Julie askeda divorce," I told hiet one since we aren’t married"

Silence

"I understand now," I told him "You left the Pack for ht ould have a happy peaceful life together You’ve been so good and assumed this calm, nice role of a man who lives in the suburbs with his fa I--"

He put his arm around ether on the couch

"I didn’t touch the giant I didn’t use any poords I only threw soore" I alue

"I will kill anything that tries to hurt you," he said, his voice quiet