Holly Wyatt's lips parted, about to offer some words of comfort to Silas Thornton, but his mood came and went in a flash.
He had already moved past his sadness, pulling her to her feet and leading her toward the dining room.
'Hurry, hurry! Only twenty-four hours left! I need to spend more time with my cub before she goes off to her internship. First, we eat! Eat! My cub needs a full stomach to even think about preparing for her interview! La la la~ I love watching my cub eat!'
Holly Wyatt's eyelashes fluttered. She looked down at the large hand holding hers—so warm and reassuring. A smile crept onto her lips.
*
「Afternoon. The southwest corner of the manor.」
A furtive figure slipped through a hole in the perimeter wall and, with a WHOOSH, ran down from the direction of the back mountain.
Her wolf ears and tail were neatly retracted. A light breeze swept past, lifting the hair that covered the side of her face and revealing Chloe Thornton's ice-cold expression.
