I had spent the whole day half terrified that someone would grab my shoulder at the library and announce that it was them all along who had been summoning me to their side and that all it took was an invitation to let them become a part of my waking life.

Well at least that was what the part of me that had spent too much time reading bad gothic romance novels thought it could be. My other more sensible part was also terrified but more because I had alerted the sleeping wolf thing to my presence and now had to go back to really being stuck in a bed with a large carnivore who let alone bite me could just fall over in their sleep and crush me.

Because if Alric said it was real, it was real.

Still even with the pacing I had been doing back and forth through my apartment I knew I could not keep awake. My limbs got heavier and heavier. Eyes filled with grit and suddenly with a thwomp I was gone.