The silence in the house settled over me like a weighted blanket.

It was bittersweet for the boys to leave because I found it hard to be around Mason for too long. The longing inside of me was pathetic. I’d just met this man and suddenly felt like a thirteen-year-old girl again.

On the other hand, the house gave me the creeps. Maybe it was the fact I was alone in this giant house with man-size wolves roaming the woods. I still couldn’t grasp that a wolf could get that big. It ...