Chapter 162

ADRIANA

I've thought I felt what an out of body experience is before, but what I'm feeling now, I realize, is exactly what it means to have an out of body experience. I'm here, I hear things, I see things but I feel absent. In my body. I know this isn't just my wolf taking control and pushing me back, it is more than just that.

"What did you want to say again?" Xander asks, sounding bored.

The woman—my mother—it feels weird calling her that because I didn't feel any of the things I thought I would feel if I saw her. No joy, not even disappointment or anger. I just feel numb, and she could as well be anyone at this point. She hasn't turned or spared me a glance since she came and that is probably adding to how I feel about her presence.

I'd known it was her the moment I caught sight of the long blond almost whitish hair, so much like mine, and her eyes, I have a feeling they are the same color. Even our statures are