Chapter 18

Valerie

Her pack?

No way. Samantha was a wolf?

She wasn’t like any werewolf I had ever met before. She wasn’t tall and muscular, she wasn’t physically imposing or dangerous-looking. She was…tiny.

Samantha laughed at the expression on my face. I must have been making an obvious one.

“If you’re wondering, no. I’m not human. I’m a werewolf, just like our Alpha.”

“But you don’t…” I didn’t know how to say this without coming across the wrong way. I swallowed. “You don’t look like…”

“I look like a human, right?” she asked. “I’m an Omega. We’re much…smaller. I’m sure it’s easy to mistake me for a human, so don’t worry about it.”

An Omega. I stifled a gasp. It hadn’t been polite to ask, but I couldn’t help it. I knew the wolf society had a very strict pecking order when it came to their hierarchy. I knew Omegas were at the bottom of that hierarchy, but I had no idea they looked so…human.

“I’m guessing you want to know why I’m here,” Samantha said. She wore a warm smile that made me feel a lit