title: Numb
author: Murray, Dean
description: Adriana Paige didn't see her breakup with Alec Graves coming any more than he did, but at the time she couldn't see any other way to stop him from turning into some kind of monster. For weeks now she's been haunted by the worry that she made a terrible mistake, but she's thousands of miles away from Sanctuary now and there's nothing left but to try and soldier on.
  Alec Graves had just finished standing off the single most dangerous group of shape shifters in the world when Adri told him she was moving away. He'd always known that being the alpha of his small pack would come with costs, but he never imagined that losing Adri would be one of them.
  Alec and Adri are two damaged hearts with one thing in common. They would both give almost anything to be free of their pain.
  They just want to be numb.
  Publisher's Note:
   Readers new to the Reflections series should begin with
  Broken
   (currently free) or
  Torn
  , both of which are also by Dean Murray.
  Numb
   is preceded by
  Intrusion
   and followed by
  Trapped
  .
  Numb
   is a 2,500 word young adult paranormal romance short story.