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to protect me, I can’t be pissed at him for that.” Sofie shrugs, her voice level and calm.
Lindsey looks at her as if she were an alien. “Okay…Who are you and what have you done with Sofie Braun?” She looks behind her as if she’s expecting the real Sofie to appear through the door at any moment, pointing and screaming at the doppelganger.
“Ha, ha, very funny.” Sofie rolls her eyes, jumping up to take a seat on the stool at the breakfast bar. Ashton had converted the barn into a kind of clubhouse, but it was nowhere near big enough to accommodate the entire pack for any length of time. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that soon they’d be getting cabin fever and would be desperate to get out of this place, to run free in the woods. It’s what they’re made for and it won’t take long for their natural instincts to win out over their common sense.
“Earth to Sofie! You still with me?” Lindsey is waving a hand in front of her face, cutting of Sofie’s blank stare into the distance.
“Sorry, must have zoned out there for a second. Blame the lack of sleep!” She smiles wryly at her friend, wondering if Lindsey can tell immediately that she’s lying or if it takes her a good few seconds.
“Right…it’s lack of sleep or it’s the fact that you’ve got something on your mind? Anything you want to share with the group?” Lindsey spreads her hands, looking at Sofie expectantly. “What’s got you all Zen?”
Sofie bows her head, looking at her feet, knowing that once the words are out of her mouth she won’t be able to take them back and they’ll start something that there won’t be any walking away from. “Ashton wants me to leave.” She watches Lindsey as her friends’ eyes widen in surprise, not at Sofie’s words but at the calmness behind them. Before she can be interrupted she barrels on. “He’s made arrangements with the Frontier pack in Alaska, I leave tonight and I’ve asked for you to be the one to come with me.”
Lindsey works her mouth, but no words come out. Absently, Sofie wonders if this is the first time that she’s seen her friend speechless, it was disconcerting to say the least. The silence stretches out between them until Lindsey shakes her head, getting a hold of herself.
“Tonight? And you’re okay with that? With him sending you away?” Lindsey looks at her incredulously. “I really am starting to wonder if I’m stuck in ‘Revenge of the Bodysnatchers’.” She paces up and down in front of Sofie, thinking out loud in an unstoppable stream of consciousness, trying to make sense of what she’s hearing and Sofie’s reaction to it. “It’s not like I’m surprised that Ash would do this, it doesn’t take a mind reader to figure out that he wants you as far away from this mess as possible. And I guess Alaska is about as far away as you can get. But what I don’t get is how calm you are about it. I know you’re a scientist and you have a tendency to be a little uptight,” Lindsey holds her hands up as Sofie levels a look at her. “Well it’s true! But you fight for what you believe in and for what you want and I know that you want to stay with the pack, you want to stay with Ash, you proved that when you asked to be turned. So that’s why it makes no sense that you would just let him ship you off to the back of freakin’ beyond and sit there smiling serenely like the Mona Lisa!” A look of realization stops Lindsey in her tracks. It’s a light-bulb moment as the penny drops. “Unless of course you’re not planning to just let him ship you off.”
Lindsey’s last sentence hangs in the air as Sofie nods slowly. “We have a winner!” Sofie jokes weakly. “We’re not going to Alaska. I’m not going to run away, not when I know that I can help.”
“So where are we going?” Lindsey looks at her curiously, her head tilted to get a better read on her.
Sofie does something that she’s been practising, she opens her mind, she
Lindsey looks at her as if she were an alien. “Okay…Who are you and what have you done with Sofie Braun?” She looks behind her as if she’s expecting the real Sofie to appear through the door at any moment, pointing and screaming at the doppelganger.
“Ha, ha, very funny.” Sofie rolls her eyes, jumping up to take a seat on the stool at the breakfast bar. Ashton had converted the barn into a kind of clubhouse, but it was nowhere near big enough to accommodate the entire pack for any length of time. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that soon they’d be getting cabin fever and would be desperate to get out of this place, to run free in the woods. It’s what they’re made for and it won’t take long for their natural instincts to win out over their common sense.
“Earth to Sofie! You still with me?” Lindsey is waving a hand in front of her face, cutting of Sofie’s blank stare into the distance.
“Sorry, must have zoned out there for a second. Blame the lack of sleep!” She smiles wryly at her friend, wondering if Lindsey can tell immediately that she’s lying or if it takes her a good few seconds.
“Right…it’s lack of sleep or it’s the fact that you’ve got something on your mind? Anything you want to share with the group?” Lindsey spreads her hands, looking at Sofie expectantly. “What’s got you all Zen?”
Sofie bows her head, looking at her feet, knowing that once the words are out of her mouth she won’t be able to take them back and they’ll start something that there won’t be any walking away from. “Ashton wants me to leave.” She watches Lindsey as her friends’ eyes widen in surprise, not at Sofie’s words but at the calmness behind them. Before she can be interrupted she barrels on. “He’s made arrangements with the Frontier pack in Alaska, I leave tonight and I’ve asked for you to be the one to come with me.”
Lindsey works her mouth, but no words come out. Absently, Sofie wonders if this is the first time that she’s seen her friend speechless, it was disconcerting to say the least. The silence stretches out between them until Lindsey shakes her head, getting a hold of herself.
“Tonight? And you’re okay with that? With him sending you away?” Lindsey looks at her incredulously. “I really am starting to wonder if I’m stuck in ‘Revenge of the Bodysnatchers’.” She paces up and down in front of Sofie, thinking out loud in an unstoppable stream of consciousness, trying to make sense of what she’s hearing and Sofie’s reaction to it. “It’s not like I’m surprised that Ash would do this, it doesn’t take a mind reader to figure out that he wants you as far away from this mess as possible. And I guess Alaska is about as far away as you can get. But what I don’t get is how calm you are about it. I know you’re a scientist and you have a tendency to be a little uptight,” Lindsey holds her hands up as Sofie levels a look at her. “Well it’s true! But you fight for what you believe in and for what you want and I know that you want to stay with the pack, you want to stay with Ash, you proved that when you asked to be turned. So that’s why it makes no sense that you would just let him ship you off to the back of freakin’ beyond and sit there smiling serenely like the Mona Lisa!” A look of realization stops Lindsey in her tracks. It’s a light-bulb moment as the penny drops. “Unless of course you’re not planning to just let him ship you off.”
Lindsey’s last sentence hangs in the air as Sofie nods slowly. “We have a winner!” Sofie jokes weakly. “We’re not going to Alaska. I’m not going to run away, not when I know that I can help.”
“So where are we going?” Lindsey looks at her curiously, her head tilted to get a better read on her.
Sofie does something that she’s been practising, she opens her mind, she
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