Page 102 of His White Moonlight

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“I’ve got you, baby,” Bennett said.“You’re safe.You’ll be okay.I won’t let anything hurt you.I promise.”

The pain and fear melted away, and I started feeling unnaturally tired.

“What did you do?”I asked, my words slurring.

“Just gave you something to help you calm down.”

“Asshole.”

And then I was out.

* * *

When I came to again,I was in bed, and Grandma was sitting in a chair beside me, holding my hand.

She smiled at me when I looked at her.

“How are you feeling, my little Wren?”

My blink took a little too long as I considered her question.

“Tired.”Yet, even as I said it, I felt more alert.

“Are you still feeling upset?”she asked.

“Why would I?—”

The pain returned as the fogginess in my mind cleared, but it was less intense in the face of her compassionate focus.

It was all a lie.

Both her hands cradled mine.

“My sweet girl, no more tears.Tell Grandma what’s wrong.We’ll fix it together, okay?”

Grandma.She’d never treated me as anything other than the most precious person in her life.She’d scolded Aiden and Karter countless times for me.Bennett, too, though not as often because he hadn’t been around.

Maybe she was the one person who’d been real in my life.But that didn’t mean I could admit what I knew.Once I did that, they would make it impossible for me to leave.

“I remember a story you told me,” I said.“About a wolf who waited too long to claim his mate.He went insane.I think Bennett is going insane.”

Her worried expression turned to compassion and almost started me crying again.

“Is that why you were upset?He did something to upset you?”

He had.He’d picked me as his future mate.But I couldn’t tell her that.I withdrew my hand from hers.

“I think I want to sleep some more.”

“Sleep isn’t going to help whatever is provoking that intelligent mind of yours, is it?”

“No.”

“When you hide from the things bothering you, they always find a way to haunt you.Don’t hide, my little Wren.You’re too courageous for that.”

“I’m not hiding.I’m processing.”

She smiled and nodded.“Then, process.I’ll wake you again later.”

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