Chapter Thirty one

VALERIAN’S POV

I walked on, averting my eyes as well, as Jared transformed from a tall, lean man with light blond hair and dark blue eyes to a large white wolf with a deep, thick coat and brilliantly white teeth. Jared sprinted past him as he sprinted to join Sophia where she waited patiently, pausing for a second to let me run my fingers through the guard hairs along his back.

"Please keep me in the loop while you're out there, Jared," I said to them both while looking at Jared, tapping his temple, meaning the mental mind link. "I don't want to lose any more wolves to those bastards."

Jared yipped in agreement, and he and Sophia took off down the path, towards the other canines where the other Red Sun Hill wolves were bunking. I watched them go, and then I turned my feet towards the big cabin at the top of the path. My boots slid in the melting snow and ice on the pathway not being sturdy enough to hold him upright as I walked carefully down, and I wondered briefly if I should change