Voren wiped the rain off his face with his palm. It came straight back. The sky wasn't done with any of them tonight.
"Thank you," Seraphine said, and every word of it was final. "But I'll walk."
"It's not safe." Voren's eyes moved briefly down the road and back. More trees could come down. Visibility was almost nothing. Whatever strength Seraphine had, and she had plenty, it wasn't the same as an Alpha cutting through a storm. "You can't see twenty feet in front of you out there."
"You don't understand." She pressed her lips together, eyes sliding sideways for just a second like she was already dreading the next part. The rain was soaking through her completely, her hair flat against her face. "It's that time of the month."
She got the whole sentence out, and the faint smile that crossed Voren's face was so quick she almost missed it.
