Chapter 389

My palms are clammy, my heart rate elevating, and my legs turning to Jell-O the longer we wait here. It’s a form of torture to wait on the unknown to play out. Leyanne disappeared with Jasper to summon Varro and left us standing here in this deafening anticipation. I know word would have traveled to surrounding wolves, mouth to mouth, that I was waiting here to meet with him, so I know that’s why Colton appeared. He would have questioned the sudden retreat of those foul creatures and heard I was standing alone awaiting him. True to his nature, he came to me in a flash. “You’re okay, though? No harm, no one touched you? You aren’t tired, dizzy, needing to lay down?” Colton brings his attention back to me, scanning me with that quick eye and I nod at him, completely distracted. I know he knew the answer to that the second he landed beside me, but he still has to ask. His eyes and emotional sensors are all over me because he knows mentally I am all over the place concerning Varro. He’s t