Chapter 67

Stryker-

Having Nea on my back as we ran across the open fields and through the woods, had been something I had dreamed of. When we arrived at a small village, we didn’t have to hide as we shifted back into our human forms. Most people around here were either part of the supernatural world or knew about it.

Taking the clothes that I had discarded from another member that had picked them up for me, I quickly dressed. Nea wandered off on her own, but I wasn’t worried. I found her sometime later as she was having a snowball fight with some kids.

Instead of joining in, I stood back and watched. This was the first time I have seen her laugh so freely as if she didn’t have a worry in the world. Even when she was younger, there had always been something keeping the light from fully reaching her eyes.

“She really is something, isn’t she?” Zach said as he stepped beside me and watched Nea playing around. The hybrids also joined in on the fun, as did some of the werewolves.

“That she is. By the