When my feet touch the ground again I smile at Leo, his gentle yellow eyes confirming my findings. We’re alone. I drop to my knees to greet him as he bounds toward me. The large timber wolf licks my face and lifts his massive paws up to hug me. I hugged him so often when he was a baby that one day he hugged back. He's done it ever since.
Sometimes you just need a hug. Sometimes I just need to cry. He understands that.
I haven’t seen much good since it all ended, not in people anyway, but the animals are still good. They live the way they always did. I wish we spent our time trying to be more like them, instead of trying to survive this new world.
I wish I could be more like them and need less of the world.
Leo lightly nuzzles me and nips at my arms. I rub his soft ears and stand. I pat him gently on his huge gray head. "Ready?"
He tilts his head meaning he is, so I pick up the heavy pack and adjust it on my back again. The hike home will take the entire day if I manage to keep a solid pace. Leo starts out for home by heading past the old broken oak tree.
Our meeting place.
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Other YA Books by Tara Brown
The Roses Academy
Cursed
Bane
Hyde
Witch
Death
Blackwater
Midnight Coven
The Royals Series
A Royal Pain
A Royal Affair
A Royal Wedding
Crimson Cove Academy
Pretty Girls Die First
The Little Crimson Lies
Third Time’s a Charm
Four Crimson Corners
When The Lights Fade
The Born Series
Born
Born to Fight
Reborn
The Light Series
The Light of the World
The End of Days
The Last City of Men Series
Imaginations
Duplicities
Reparations
The Blood Trail Chronicles
Vengeance
Vanquished
Valiant
The Seventh Day Series
The Seventh Day
The Last Hour
The Earth’s End
First Kiss
Sunder
In the Fading Light
About Me
I believe growing up in a really small town gives a person a little advantage when it comes to the imagination. You need one or you go mad.
Needless to say, mine saved me. After it got me into trouble first, that is. That's the problem with a vivid imagination, all the lies you tell.
According to my age, I am meant to be a responsible adult, but it isn't going well at all. I would still head off to Hogwarts tomorrow and I suspect there isn't a single wardrobe I haven't crept into, hoping to find the door to Narnia. And don't even get me started on the King's Road, I get lost.
Fortunately, I am an international bestseller so I have wormed my way into a quirky or eccentric category.
Thank God for that.
I am happily married with two daughters.
I have two giant dogs, two savage cats, and a penchant for a glass of red.
I am represented by Natalie Lakosil from the Bradford Literary Agency and am published traditionally with Montlake Romance and Skyscape Publishing.
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