Howling In Pain

The moon was full, and it was time for another shift. Normally, the shifts were led by an alpha or their mate, but I had quickly realized that their only option was me and sucked it up.

Without the moon, I could not transform, but with most of them also being Omegas, no one held it against me, waiting patiently until I had begun before beginning themselves.

I am a big person, I realized. I am important to the pack, big enough to make a difference, big enough to lead them all to shifts, and I could see myself even better, I get that would have been impossible in the darkness of my former pack.

That night, the crickets were whistling, a silence taking over the pack, and making it more evident that something was going on.

Worried, I called out for the original outcasts I had met; Luke, Lee, Kimora and David, needing to see them with immediacy. Something was off, and without them, I would not continue. Eric, Erin and Remy came over to me too, and I pulled them into a quick hug, wonde