Chapter 15 Wait And See

• The night was thick with a stillness that clung to everything. There wasn't even a whisper of wind, just the steady beat of my heart as I stared down at her lifeless body. Her chest had stopped rising minutes ago, her breath stolen by whatever strange force had caused her collapse. In my Lycan form, my senses were sharper than any human's-my eyes could see even the smallest details in the dark, and my ears could pick up the faintest of sounds. But there was nothing. Just the silence and the weight of her cold body in my arms.
• She was dead.
• I knew this because I had felt death before, the cessation of life in the air around a body. I could smell it, the void where a person's essence had once been. It was unmistakable. Her skin had paled, her lips were blue, and the warmth that had radiated from her had vanished, leaving only a corpse behind.