Chapter71. The Nothing

Nikolai. The wolf who took my virginity. The wolf who didn’t care that I was human. The first person who hadn’t judged me on being a winter born. Who had liked it. He showed me what it meant to be completely enraptured by someone in every way. I was always safe with him. The rules didn’t matter when we were together, the fact that we were different didn’t. He saw what he wanted and he went for it; that obsession with everything I was meant everything to me. And I was obsessed with him too. Braxton. The werewolf who was cursed like me, to live with shadows. The one who understood what that meant. He was the wolf I needed when I couldn’t keep control; when I was overwhelmed with everything I was, he kept me grounded, safe. He was who I needed when I felt like I was going to give in to the darkness. He was the light inside me when I couldn’t see. The connection I had with him was already so deep, and I needed it to survive. Derik. The werewolf with the brooding intensity, the one with the