Numb (Reflections Volume 5)

By Dean Murray

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Firshan Publishing, Inc
• Release date: Mar 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310604812

Dean Murray

Dean started reading seriously in the second grade due to a competition and has spent most of the subsequent three decades lost in other people's worlds. After reading several local libraries more or less dry of sci-fi and fantasy, he started spending more time wandering around worlds of his own creation to avoid the boredom of the 'real' world.Things worsened, or improved depending on your point of view, when he first started experimenting with writing while finishing up his accounting degree. These days Dean has a wonderful wife and daughter to keep him rather more grounded, but the idea of bringing others along with him as he meets interesting new people in universes nobody else has ever seen tends to drag him back to his computer on a fairly regular basis.

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Numb

by Dean Murray

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2013 by Dean Murray

Also by Dean Murray:

The Reflections Series

Broken (free)

Torn (free if you sign up for Dean's Mailing List)

Splintered

Intrusion

Numb

Trapped

Forsaken

Riven

The Greater Darkness (Writing as Eldon Murphy) (free)

A Darkness Mirrored (Writing as Eldon Murphy)

Driven

The Dark Reflections Series

Bound

Hunted

The Guadel Chronicles

Frozen Prospects (free)

Thawed Fortunes (free if you sign up for Dean's Mailing List)

Brittle Bonds

Shattered Ties

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Other Books by Dean Murray

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Author's Note: As I write this note, Alec and Adri's world has grown to include eleven published titles with another four novels to be released in the next eight months. Things are chugging along at quite the pace now, but back when I wrote the original two threads that make up this story, only Broken, Torn and Splintered had been released.

Numb actually came about because I had the chance to join in a multi-author promo and agreed to write a short story to be posted on a website along with several other writers. Back