Chapter 12

perimeter. Everyone in this pack from the Alpha down to the lowest pack member must take a turn at patrolling

the property. We’re in an isolated area and his pack owns

hundreds of square miles of property with the whole western.

side flanking a state park, but we can never be too sure.

Humans are everywhere.

And so are enemy wolves.

I can’t shift and run the way the rest of the wolves here do, but I know the game trails well enough.

The fresh air fills my lungs carrying the scent of spring and fresh rain and lilacs. Those were my mother’s favorites, and I

planted them all around the main house.

Before I cut onto the southern trail, I turn back to the mansion.

It sits like a behemoth on the hillside, and in the distance

are rows and rows of neat little houses and cabins. Some

two hundred families live and work in this area and the

surrounding countryside. I wasn’t born here, but it feels like

home.

of the time.

Maybe.

glance at my cell phone. My dad hasn’t called. Not

me.

saved in my

got a

My stomach sinks.

need to stop

3/4

the scents change. I

it must be to smell the pine and birch, the

always wanted my own wolf

and smell and taste and feel with such a

to the world around

I’d run as fast and as far as

breath and my

I walk now.

Slowly.

Looking up at the breaks in the canopy where the sun

around me is a circle of life that is both fleeting and so exquisitely

a mile from the mansion when I hear the rumble.

of something big,

Love: An

flash of gray

a

to tail with darker tones along his chest

runs until he’s even with me.

of

of me wants to rail about Jessica.

that Aaron can answer. And I’m not about to give him an out when all he can do is bark

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