Most of the pack doesn't respond. You're not surprised. The thing about hunting vampires is it messes with your internal clock. When the sun comes up, the yawning starts.
Not everyone is asleep though.
Addie and Sergi emerge to stand on the driveway with you. Addie looks like she always does, a bony old woman, tougher than nails, with fluffy white hair and a shrewd look in her eye.
Sergi looks like hell. He's unshaven, unwashed, the scar on his face still puffy and pink, his shirt sleeve knotted over his missing arm.
He woke up a few days ago, panicked, snarling, and shifting uncontrollably between human and wolf... but alive, and aware. Nikolas calmed him down, took him aside, and explained what happened. The Sergi that emerged after that conversation was different from the Sergi you've known. Angrier, colder, meaner.
"What you lookin' at?" he growls.
You turn away. "Nothing."
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