Blackfeather Woods Listen

Cicero could appreciate the game he felt she was playing. He did not think that she had not enjoyed this — chasing him through the shadows, the thrill and danger of the chase. He enjoyed hunting — wolf or prey — for that thrill, because he knew he could get caught, he knew he might get hurt. Then, he knew it was not the same for all. They did not all share his preference for pain.

Yet heart attacks seemed over the top. Had he gauged her wrong, he wondered, to think that she had appreciated this little game they played. He offered no more than a roll of his shoulder and easily pushed the subject aside to ask: "Did Damien accept Emélie into Blackfeather Woods?" It was either his brother or Nemesis that had accepted her into the pack, though Damien seemed the more likely of the two.