{"id":1277,"date":"2018-06-04T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T12:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2018-06-11T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:01:31","slug":"wolfs-bane-chapter-1-scene-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Wolf&#8217;s Bane, Chapter 1 Scene 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1272 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/teaser600-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"And that's how I came to punch an alpha werewolf in the nose....\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/teaser600-300x261.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/teaser600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>Ready to dive into a new adventure? I hope you enjoy the beginning of <a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/mZPBBR\">Wolf&#8217;s Bane.<\/a>..<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\">The first time my mother spoke to me from beyond the grave, my little sister was defying gravity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\">\u201c<i>The nail that sticks out gets hammered down,\u201d <\/i>the<i> <\/i>disembodied voice of my dead mother noted inside my head just as a very real Kira called out: \u201cLook, Mai! I\u2019m flying!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\">Jolting at Mama\u2019s unexpected intrusion, I swiveled to take in my sister\u2019s long legs scampering atop the six-foot high-wall at the edge of the cemetery. I usually didn\u2019t pay much attention to Kira\u2019s affinity for gymnastics in high places. But it wasn\u2019t every day a long-dead Japanese woman tapped on the inside of my skull and demanded that I take notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\">So\u2014\u201cCareful!\u201d I called just as Kira\u2019s right foot touched down on a section of wall where the weight of the hillside had pushed the cinder blocks out at an angle, ivy and dirt promising to send the unwary tumbling off her stride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\">\u201cI know what I\u2019m doing!\u201d my sister replied, tossing her head and rolling her eyes just like she\u2019d done yesterday and the day before and the day before that while walking home from school. All the while human feet pranced through the debris with the agility of a fox, proving that she was right and I was wrong. My concern\u2014and the warning from our dead mother\u2014had been for nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\">Or so it seemed until my sister raised her chin toward the surprisingly bright March sunshine, closed her eyes to better soak up the warmth&#8230;and ran smack dab into the largest male body I\u2019d seen in my life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\">A moment earlier, I could have sworn that the cemetery\u2014or at least what I could see of it from the recessed sidewalk\u2014was entirely devoid of life. But now my little sister\u2019s shoulders were caught in the grip of hands that could oh-so-easily slide upward to settle around her unprotected neck. Veins stood out from the assailant\u2019s rippling muscles. And I didn\u2019t need to lift my nose to the breeze to understand what had taken place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\">Kira had been waylaid by our worst possible enemy\u2014an alpha male werewolf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-line-indent-western\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=1279\"><em>Click here to continue straight to scene two&#8230;.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready to dive into a new adventure? I hope you enjoy the beginning of Wolf&#8217;s Bane&#8230; The first time my mother spoke to me from beyond the grave, my little sister was defying gravity. \u201cThe nail that sticks out gets hammered down,\u201d the disembodied voice of my dead mother noted inside my head just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,142],"tags":[14,7,27,23,8],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts-aimee-easterling","category-series-moon-marked","tag-paranormal-books","tag-shifter-books","tag-urban-fantasy-books","tag-urban-paranormal-romantic-fantasy","tag-werewolf-books","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}