Maura was staring at him. Jack could feel her eyes on the side of his face, and it was annoying. No matter how hard he tried to listen to the math teacher, having her eyes bore into his soul was a distraction.
She had only said hi to him in the hallway earlier that day. He hadn’t been lying to Everly. But it had been the way that she’d said it that made him hesitate to assure his girlfriend that everything was fine. It was still hard for him to believe that Maura was a witch, but he knew that Everly thought she was, and as long as she felt like Maura was a threat, it was going to be hard for him to just tell her that everything was fine.As soon as class was over, Jack gathered up his books and briskly walked toward the door, hoping that he could get out of there before Maura had a chance to say anything to him, but she was a quick little witch, and within a few seconds of him leaving his chair, he felt a tug on his arm. “Hey, Jack!” Maura’s sEverly couldn’t believe her own eyes. Was Jack actually kissing that bitch Maura?Logically, she knew he would never choose to do that, that it had to be some sort of a trick on her part. She was a f*cking witch after all. But still, as soon as she saw the situation in the hallway, after she’d given up on meeting him at her locker, as they normally did every day after school, and had gone off looking for him, she hadn’t stopped to think about why it had happened.She’d just turned around and bolted.She didn’t even know how she’d planned to get home since the buses were already gone, and Jack was her usual ride to her house.But then, now that she was capable of shifting, she could move a lot faster. How long would it take her to just run home?It turned out, it didn’t even matter. She wouldn’t have to find out. As she pushed through the doors of the school, she saw a familiar form waiting for her on
“Jack,” Everly said, the image of him kissing Maura coming back to her immediately, the second she laid eyes on him.“Everly!” he said, rushing over to her. She backed away, running into Slate, before he could touch her. “Listen, you know that I would never, ever kiss her. She kissed me. I didn’t even want to talk to her.”“What’s the matter, Grey?” Slate said, sounding a little cockier than he should’ve been considering that he hadn’t actually won anything. “Did you get caught with your pants down?”Jack glared over her shoulder at the other wolf shifter. “Stay out of this, Slate!” he said. “This doesn’t concern you! The fact that you just happened to be standing around outside of the school, waiting to swoop in and snatch Everly up the moment she ran out of the school is pretty good evidence that you and Maura set this up.”Slate came around beside
“The council is at our house?” Jack repeated, staring at his sister. He could hardly believe his ears. How in the hell had they found out so quickly about the pictures? Maura had threatened to tell them, but surely she hadn’t done so already. Would she give up on her plan to seduce him and win him over so quickly?He turned and looked at Slate, glaring at him, unable to speak.“Hey, don’t look at me, asshole,” the Nachtwolf said, wiping the blood that was flowing from his nose from where Jack had just punched him on the back of his hand. “Why the hell would I tell them anything? You were there when I convinced my dad not to say anything.”“I don’t know that you personally told them, but I think that it was someone from your pack, bunch of jackasses.”“Bullshit. It had to be one of your f*ckers who isn’t loyal to you.” Slate folded his arms and glared at Jack, and he wanted to punc
When Jack gave her the word, Everly turned around and ran for the door, headed out into the street as fast as her legs would carry her, not sure where she was headed after that but knowing she needed to get as far away from his house and the council members as possible.It had been a mistake going there. They should’ve known that. What could the council members possibly want that was good? To have a discussion with her about how three of them had killed her mother eleven years ago, and it was one of the most fun activities they’d ever taken part in, so they’d very much like to do it again? Everly felt stupid for ever even considering coming to talk to them like civilized people. They weren’t even people.But then… neither was she. Not anymore.But she didn’t want to shift at the moment because if she did, she’d lose her clothes, and if she lost her clothes, eventually, when she shifted back into her human form, she&rsqu
“How far are we going to go?” Everly asked Slate as he continued to ride his bike through the forest. It was difficult going, cutting between trees and watching out for fallen logs and other debris that could potentially tip them over. Even though they were going slower than they would be going if they were on the road, they still were traveling faster than they would’ve been if they were in their wolf forms.“We’ll keep going this direction for a while,” Slate said, shouting above the roar of the engine.Everly wished that they had the mind-link so that they could talk to one another, but they weren’t in the same pack, so they had to yell to be heard. At least they weren’t traveling fast enough for the wind to be a factor.The further she got away from home, the more uncomfortable she got. This just didn’t feel right. Not only was she traveling away from Jack, but she was also leaving her dad, and he would have no
A pack of Nachtwolves crashed through the windows of the living room, dining room, and other rooms of the house. At the same time, members of Jack’s pack came pouring in from the back of the house and up from the basement, which they’d accessed from the back yard via the sliding glass door. He learned all of this from mind-link messages. He didn’t have that capability from the Nachtwolves, but Bridge was in the front yard and told him what she’d seen as she was running to them to help.The council members didn’t have superpowers. They were just regular wolves, so it wasn’t as if they could hold off the dozens and dozens of wolves that were coming at them. No, they would certainly be kept in check by two packs who didn’t want to let them out of the house to pursue Everly.Granite shifted back into his human form, having no qualms about standing there completely naked in front of all of them. “Well, I see that it isn’t ju
Slate drove on for what seemed like several hours. Everly wondered how much gas he had in his motorcycle and whether they might run out and not be able to get back home.But they were wolves, so they could always run back home eventually, right?She did have her phone. So she hoped she’d be able to call her father at some point. Would they be able to get a signal this deep in the woods?It was getting dark. Part of it was because of the woods. They were so tall here, in the shadows of the mountains, which they’d begun to creep up a bit the further they went, the tops of the trees easily blocked out the beams of the sun as it began to fade over the edge of the horizon.“Shouldn’t you turn your headlight on?” Everly asked Slate once it got so dark she was having trouble seeing. Now that she was a wolf shifter, she could see better than she could before, but it was still getting harder for her to see into the darkness around them.
With the council members locked in the jail cells, Jack was ready to go try and find Victor, but he was also nervous. “What about Jim?” he asked his dad.“Slate’s mom went to talk to him,” Victor replied. “Why don’t you let your mom and I take care of that. You need to go find Everly and get her as far away from here as possible. We’ll tell the school that both of you have mono. They’ll believe that. You have good grades. Jamie can write you excuses.”Jack nodded—that was a good way to get them dismissed for the last week of school before the end of the year, but they would have to figure all of this out before the spring semester. He knew how important it was to Everly that she graduate from high school with good grades so that she could go to a good college. It wouldn’t matter to her that she would be the Luna of his pack and had a guaranteed job and plenty of money for the rest of her life.Or