Twenty-nine:
Prince Raoul
Crimson was doing better. After the incident with Hunter Pulfer, it was as if having something to fight for had given her renewed strength. While she’d recuperated, I’d been staying in her room. We had yet to do anything intimate together except for kiss but simply having her near me was enough that it kept my wolf at bay. In that time, I stayed in the Ashland cabin. It was a whole other world there. Completely different from Castle Lupine.
Her family was still wary of me.
If I was in the house, Anya told her children to go outside. Gerard kept mostly to himself, working at his blacksmith shop, and tended not to come home until late. He said nothing to me except for a grunt of acknowledgement here or there. Crimson’s grandmother would engage wi
