89.   In the Dark

~ RIG ~

 I crouched in my wolf-form in the bushes near the sidewalk that ran under the trees alongside the library listening as the last of the students descended the stairs down to the parking lot. Luckily none of them decided to brave the forest tonight, though they wouldn’t have seen me even if they had.

I’d been hidden there since I left the library over an hour earlier. Cara had insisted. She’d desperately needed to get some things done so her boss wouldn’t be mad, and she’d insisted that if I was there she wouldn’t be able to concentrate.

I didn’t know about her, but I couldn’t concentrate on anything else anyway.

It had been so hard watching her fight tears… feeling the hollow ache of loneliness in her che