Chapter One
I hated the smell of this place: concrete and institutional.
Antiseptic. But all the cleaning in the world couldn't cover up the
unhappiness, the sourness, the faint smell of urine. The anger.
The guard at the door of the visiting room pointed me and Ben to
empty chairs at a table on one side of a glass partition. The room
held half a dozen cubicles like this. Only a phone line would
connect us to the other side.
I was shaking. I didn't like coming here. Well, I did, and I didn't.
I wanted to see him, but even being here as a visitor made me feel
trapped. The Wolf side didn't handle it very well. Ben squeezed my
hand under the table.
"You okay?" he said. Ben had been coming here once a week to see
Cormac. I didn't come quite as often once a month, for five months
now. I'd never get used to this. In fact, it seemed to get harder
every time, not easier. I was so tense, jus ...
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