Chapter 96

She didn’t seem very upset, from what I could tell, but she wasn’t calm either. They were the last months of her pregnancy and I didn’t want Johanna to suffer from anything that could harm her condition, but she couldn’t have chosen a worse time to ask us to talk about all this. Maybe I should have told her to wait a little.

The bad thing about having started was that I couldn’t leave it like that; I couldn’t stop the purging of that poison.

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JUNE 2013

The other werewolf who had arrived in the town of Krasnoyarsk was called Duncan and was from the Douglas clan, from southern Ireland. He was a European Grey, his walk exuding the same kind of military discipline that Christian and Nika had. He and his candy-colored dog, Dealer, occupied the smaller, more remote house.

At first I thought about asking for information about him. As the days went by, I stopped caring; I was much busier monitoring Rex’s and the others’ movements, doing my job for the compan