Chapter 30 - Zak

I quietly slip out of the back door of the packhouse, the sun just rising over the horizon.  Charlie was passed out, completely exhausted from last night’s events.  I left her a note telling her where I was going.  She’d link me if she was worried.

I quickly strip out of my clothes and shift.  Copper colored fur sprouts over my skin and I fall to all fours as my muscles and bones rearrange themselves.  The change doesn’t hurt anymore, not after the first few shifts.  As an alpha, my shifts are quick and nearly silent.  One second I’m human and the next, I’m a wolf.

I take off into the trees, at first following the trail that we take on pack runs around the forest behind the packhouse.  The forest has enough foliage to be cool, but is spaced far enough apart that two or three of us could run n