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I took a deep breath as Gary gave me his undivided attention. It was time to tell him the almost unbelievable secret I’d just found out myself.
“You know that from the time I turned sixteen I started developing stronger senses,” I began and he nodded, still not quite sure where I was headed with this. “Even my physical strength seemed to increase.”
“What has that got to do with you having an accident?” he asked impatiently.
“Well, it seems Cade and Blake know why,” I revealed.
I knew Gary wouldn’t believe me if I just told him, so I needed Cade or Blake to show him.
“Show him,” I instructed Cade and Blake.
“I’ve done my party trick for the night,” said Cade as he stepped back and Blake took a step forward. Then in an instant, the body of Blake was transformed into a huge dark-brown wolf.
“Holy shit!” shouted Gary as he shot up and stood protectively in front of me, putting himself between me and the dangerous animal.
Wincing, I stood up, clutching my injured side and pulled Gary back to look at me. His eyes were still glued to the wolf that was standing on all fours in front of us. Cade stood by, watching Gary’s reaction with a smug half grin.
It took some talking to get Gary to sit back down and Blake shifted back into his normal human form. Thank goodness when they shifted, their clothes shifted with them, otherwise it would be all sorts of awkward with naked bodies. And I had no desire to see Blake or Cade naked.
I sat back down, pulling Gary back down beside me. Wide-eyed, Gary listened to Blake and Cade explain the whole werewolf thing. When they were done, he turned to me.
“You’re a werewolf?” he asked, almost still in denial. But he couldn’t deny what he’d seen with his own two eyes.
“Apparently,” I said. I didn’t feel any different and the fact that I couldn’t really shift into a wolf also didn’t help me feel more like one.
“So what does this have to do with your accident?” Gary asked.
I let Cade and Blake explain that a rogue was after me. They gave him the same rundown about rogues that they’d given me earlier.
I could see the fear grow in Gary’s eyes at the thought of some supernatural creature wanting to hunt me down and kill me for no apparent reason. He was going to make me move.
“We need to move,” were the first words that he spoke to me when Cade and Blake finished telling him about rogues.
“There’s no point. If you run, he’ll just chase you,” Cade warned us.
“But we can’t just do nothing and let him get her!” shouted Gary as he stood up to face Blake and Cade.
“We’re not going to do nothing,” said Cade angrily, glaring at Gary and taking a menacing step forward. Blake put his hand on Cade’s shoulder. Cade took a deep breath and tried to get his temper under control.
The more time I spent around them, the more I noticed that Blake was the one to think before he acted but Cade was the complete opposite. He acted without thinking it through.
It did baffle my mind that two people who were so different were such good friends.
“So what is the plan?” Gary asked, looking to the two alphas.
“She’s going to have to move in here,” Cade said, laying the plan out.
“No way,” I said, shaking my head. There was no way I wanted to spend more time around Cade than I already had. The way he made me feel when I was around him scared me and I knew spending more time around him would only make it worse.
“How long?” Gary asked, ignoring my protest.
“At least until we take care of the rogue,” Cade clarified, shooting a dark look at Blake.
“I said no,” I reinforced, standing up in between them so they couldn’t ignore me.
“I don’t know why you’re fighting us every step of the way. We are trying to keep you safe, but you make it as if we are trying to punish you. I’m not going to beg you to stay, the choice is yours,” Cade said angrily at me.
“We wouldn’t ask you to do it if there was any other choice,” Blake said, trying to reason with me.
