Wolf Bargain (Wolfish 3)

Aurora.

Ian.

Rem

us.

The first, my daughter, was named for her father. It wasn’t long before Rory’s features were apparent in her, softened and girlish against the strikingly dark color of her hair.

Ian was named for my dearest friend, though she still hasn’t forgiven me for not just naming my son Vivian instead in what she calls a ‘proper tribute’.

And Remus.

Remus, named for the uncle he’ll never meet. Named in the hope that his uncle’s spirit will have another chance at redemption.

I, meanwhile, just hope he doesn’t choose to follow too closely in his great-uncle’s footsteps.

The loss of his brother has left Romulus in a fractured state, a shattered version of himself. Time has slowly pieced him back together, but there are some things that even time can’t heal completely.

And then there are other things that time can.

Enough time has finally passed that my old life, the one that existed before I came to North Port, feels like nothing more than a shadow. Nothing more than someone else’s burry memory.

Soon, in a century or two, it might not exist in my memory at all.

And that’s exactly how I like it.

Leave the past behind me. No more ghosts. No more shadows. Thanks to my shifters, my family—to Rory, Marlowe, and Kaleb—it’s the future I have to look forward to now.

And it is very, very bright.