A NEW PARTNER

SEBASTIAN I sat for a few minutes in front of the window watching Teresa in the garden pouring all her frustration on a poor tree. If we continue like this in this depression, we will attract Vicky’s attention again. He felt any kind of pain from me. And I really didn’t want to burden her with mine. She had enough on her head, too. Only I could put out the fire in Teresa’s heart, and yet why not? She was so hurt that she refused to let me approach her. Yesterday in the library our souls lived in unison, their bodies alike. I felt her being given to me with no restraint, but today, since the conversation with Caroline, everything seems to have changed in her heart. Although lost in thought, I heard two slow knocks on the office door. “Come in!” I shouted louder than anyone would hear me. I still knew who had come. “May I... Bash?” “Of course, Mother!” I answered in an emotionally serious voice. Leaving aside the connection between me and her as werewolves, she was primarily my mother, a