Chapter 27. Not Human

Wren POV

Dom caught me alone in the equipment room on Tuesday, which was smart of him. Nowhere to walk away to.

He shut the door behind him and leaned on it.

"I've been lying to your father every night for three weeks," he said.

I put down the bag of pucks I'd been carrying. "You haven't lied once. You tell him nothing's happened. Nothing has."

"I tell him the Marlowe girls are fine and nothing's changed." His voice was very calm. "And every night I walk into that apartment, and it smells less like nothing and more like someone. And every morning you pick her up with your face doing that thing it does now."

"What thing?"

"The thing where you look like you'd fight a bear for her." He folded his arms. "Talk to me, Si. I'm not asking as your father's man. I'm asking as yours."

I looked at him. Dom, who'd taught me