{"id":1777,"date":"2019-04-08T09:41:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2019-04-10T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:25:37","slug":"wolf-dreams-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aimeeeasterling.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Dreams: Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Olivia<\/a>Are you ready to dive into a brand new adventure? Meet Olivia in this excerpt from Wolf Dreams<\/a>….<\/em><\/p>\n

***<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you remember your first date? The rush of excitement. The fumbling awkwardness. The way the boy bent down for a kiss, prompting your teeth to bite all the way through his cheek.<\/p>\n

The blood. The ensuing faintness that progressed into a prehistoric vision. The visit to the emergency room. The awfulness when your father arrived to pick you up.<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe my experience wasn\u2019t precisely average. Normal is not<\/i> my middle name.<\/p>\n

\u201cOlivia Nicole Hart!\u201d my father raged as he took in the red streaks smearing my face and the wildness of my dilated pupils. His hand lashed out just shy of striking me, and that danger provided my inner monster permission to steal my body a second time.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t touch us,<\/i> she hissed, her voice raspy within the confines of my body. Then she leapt at him\u2014I mean, I<\/i> leapt at him. Sometimes it\u2019s confusing when my body does things I don\u2019t ask it to do.<\/p>\n

But it was my manicured fingernails that scraped a long welt of red down the side of my father\u2019s cheek and neck. It was my teeth that bared as if they intended to rip out his throat.<\/p>\n

Blackness hovered around me, the vision attempting to pull me under before I could commit patricide. As if it wasn\u2019t bad enough that I housed a monster, I lost my entire grasp on reality every time the beast came to call.<\/p>\n

But my father was ready for me. \u201cGet in the car,\u201d <\/i>he demanded, voice so cold my feet scurried to obey him. And, just like that, monster and vision both released their holds.<\/p>\n

I shivered as I attempted to clean up their messes ten minutes later. \u201cI\u2019m so sorry,\u201d I whispered as we drove out of the city. I\u2019d used up half a box of Kleenexes wiping blood off my body, but I still felt like I\u2019d been rolling around in offal. \u201cI didn\u2019t mean to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctors warned us what would happen if you didn\u2019t take your medicine.\u201d My father\u2014or Dr. Hart, as he preferred to be called\u2014didn\u2019t bother turning down the radio while he berated me. Didn\u2019t take his eyes off the road as he pulled the hated pill bottle out of his pocket and tossed it into my lap.<\/p>\n

It landed with the weight of lost potential. The promise of dulling the world to protect me from my own animal nature.<\/p>\n

No, <\/i>my monster growled. Starbursts flickered at the corners of my vision.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake two,\u201d<\/i> my father demanded.<\/p>\n

I twisted off the lid and swallowed them dry.<\/p>\n

Click here to head straight to chapter 1.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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