First Kiss

by Tara Brown

  I smile and lie back, “You are the strangest horse I have ever met.” I watch the stars and wonder where in the vast sky it says we are meant to be together.

  I am almost asleep again when I hear a low growl. I look up to see Bash. His horse jumps up and dashes from the woods, leaving me and the wolf alone beneath the tree.

  I look at the side of the tree where the horse left from and then back at Bash, “That was smart. Now I have to walk all the way back to the castle. And how will we explain your nudity?” He ignores me and curls up next to me, bringing with him a ton of warmth. I close my eyes and run my fingers through his dense fur.

  I trace my name in the fur and think about the many unanswered questions I still have. I need to get Rosie back, and I want to know where Lance is, and Alex—what is his fate? Not to mention, how do I find my sister or how does she find me? I need to know how to stop my mother and my aunt and the ancients. I have a million questions but none that are more important than my exhaustion from the journey I have taken several times already.

  I look back down at the wolf beneath me. His chest rises and falls slowly. It makes me smile. I feel freedom I have never felt before. Perhaps because I spent so much time trapped in a dreamland, filled with chaos.

  We fall asleep beneath the sky that tells the story of our love, I just hope that after I kill my mother and her evil sister I will finally get my own happily ever after.

  A girl can wish right?

  The End

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  Daughter of the Black Blood