Chapter 33

The doctor said, "It's because of your age, Luna." "Because you had not Shifted, your body was preventing you from entering puberty. Wolves who Shift in their early teens gradually shift as their bodies get ready for the first Shift. However, only in little doses, nothing out of the ordinary for kids going through puberty. As a result, when they Shift, they have almost fully undergone the puberty transformation. Your body wasn't yet prepared to Shift, thus your puberty changes hadn't begun.

I said, nodding in agreement, "And the forced Shift made all those changes happen at once."

The doctor told Levi and I to call him if the temperature or illness started making me feel sick at all before he sent us on our way. We initially checked in with Josh, Dean, and the search teams, but neither Yemi nor Rafa had been located. I was grateful and dissatisfied at the same time; I wanted to punish them yet was afraid to run into them again.

"You ought to return home and recuperate. I can't spare D