Dominic sat across from Grace, the pair playing tic tac toe in the dirt, the young girl laughing as she trapped him again in a no win situation.
‘I swear you are cheating’ the warrior grumbled as he placed his circle in one of the gaps just before the youngster gleefully placed hers in the other with a huge grin.
‘I win!’ she piped up happily as she did a little jig making the warrior chuckle.
It had been five days since he had found the child and though she was slowly learning to trust the other wolves she still glued herself to Dominic, fear flashing in her eyes each time he tried to leave her.
‘So’ the warrior started as he wiped over the dirt and redrew the four lines, ‘when I found you, you said your mum disappeared . . ‘
Grace nodded as she placed her cross in the dirt, ‘yeah, I
