CLARA

#Chapter86 CLARA Twenty years ago… It’s been twice now that I’ve felt his crippling pain inside me body whenever Samuel and Sophie have sex. It is this soul-crushing, skin-ripping and jarring pain that I can’t help but take up a foetal position in my bed and wait for it to subside. Nothing I do ever lessens the impact of it. It makes me feel like a handicap because I lose all sense of focus, all sense of belonging, and everything that’s happening around me fades into oblivion. Time feels endless, it could have been going on for hours or days or months, even but could not have been realistically more than a couple of minutes. By the time the waves of pain subside, I’m left gasping for breath, sweat pooling in the corners of my body, my wet clothes sticking to my skin, my heart beat thumping in my ears, my head addled with confusing thoughts, and my skin hot and flushed as if I’ve had a very bad fever. After the second time it happened, after my wolf vanished from my mind for a coupl