She may look like the Little Red Riding Hood, but she really is the wolf!
Dark Hearts follows a werewolf who escapes into the wild. Haunted by her past, as well as dark elements, will she complete her journey?
She may look like the Little Red Riding Hood, but she really is the wolf!
Dark Hearts follows a werewolf who escapes into the wild. Haunted by her past, as well as dark elements, will she complete her journey?
She may look like the Little Red Riding Hood, but she really is the wolf!
Dark Hearts follows a werewolf who escapes into the wild. Haunted by her past, as well as dark elements, will she complete her journey?
“I needed that,” Amber said. “To get it all out in the open…”
Julia realised how true those words were. There were few she would ever open up to. Evelyn had been right in saying they all had trauma, but theirs was shared. We don’t need to dredge up the past, we just know and understand
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“You did,” David replied. “After that fire, you went on about you being a were—”
The mention of that word caused her eyes to dilate. Memories from last night flooded back into her conscious mind, flashes of her running through the forest, hunting down large game, and being in the company of other werewolves.
“Werewolf,” Julia said.
“Right,” David said. “I figured you were barking mad…”
“Nice pun,” Julia said, and attempted to elbow him in the ribs.
David backed away, clearly not in the mood to kid around, at least not with those strained features. His smile looked more like the face kids made when parents made idle threats. Where’s the glow in his eyes?
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“Bomb?” Amber asked. “Why me?”
While a valid question, the answer was not so easy to communicate at first glance. I hope this works!
To make her point, Julia stood tall, puffed up her chest and growled. Amber went white as a sheet. When Julia returned to her diminutive stance, she clued in.
“Right,” Amber said. “I know what you are. They won’t.”
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After all that gunfire, screams and the blast this place was quiet as a tomb. For a werewolf, stealth was out of the question, so she lumbered along on all fours, sniffing through the thin spacing left below the doors.
Most of the cells had a faint odour of mildew and dust. Julia dismissed these immediately. The pattern led her to suspect that the captors liked to spread the women around. We can’t comfort one another that way.
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She let the dream play out, like it had before. The first time had been a year ago, where she dreamed of hunting down her doppelgänger. That was my way of working out the fact the pack was not my family.
When this journey began, their prey had been her mother. While the precise meaning eluded her, she suspected the pack played a part in her mother’s death. Why did it take as long for me to figure that out? Simple. I was vulnerable and desperate to belong.
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“Do you think that matters?” Adrienne asked before laughing. “You’re a waste of skin.”
That woman had a way with words, and they flowed freely like snake venom through the veins of an unwitting victim. Adrienne always knew what strings to pull to rile Julia up. I would’ve loved to choke the life out of her!
“You failed at that too,” Adrienne taunted. “The one the harpy sent down that mine to save the girl, but she had to pull your sorry ass to safety.”
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That yell was accompanied by three hard slaps. When the crying stopped, Julia’s mind checked out. The stage opened up in her mind, and a concert with memory-driven musicians silenced the world as violence escalated.
By the end, Julia was rocking herself back and forth, humming along to a forgotten lullaby that she scarcely remembered. For the first time in her life, she wished to be back in that prison…
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