Caleb waited until an hour before the moon was full to come to my room.  Furious at being ignored by him for days, I snarled as he entered.“You’re in the process of shifting, I see,” he said with a smug smile as he lowered himself into the room’s only easy chair that was located in the far corner.  Resting his elbows on its thickly padded arms, he touched the tips of his fingers together, tapping his index fingers lightly as he spoke. “I understand you miscarried.  I suspected as much.”I went to respond to him, but found that my voice didn’t want to cooperate.  I was shocked at how foreign it sounded to me when I finally managed to eke out, “What?”“I lied, you see,” he said as he sat forward.  “It’s true that putting venom into your system promoted your shift, but I didn’t need to put as much as I did. One small bite would have been sufficient. I could

I could feel the life force slowly ebbing from Danica.  The human part of my mind reasoned that, with Kenzie out of danger, the right thing to do would have been to release her, but the wolf in me refused to let go.  The urge to finished the job and tear her throat out was so intense that I trembled from the effort to resist it.The shouts of the crowd around me as they rooted for their pack leader to take Noah down and finish him off only served to drive my animal instinct to kill even further.  I’m not sure if I’d have resisted much longer had Oscar not returned with Noah’s pack.With the numbers on a more equal basis, Caleb’s pack quieted down.  I took note of this fact.  Apparently, not only was Noah a strong leader, but his pack was ready to fiercely defend him if the need arose.From what I could see, they need do nothing.  Although Caleb managed to get in a few good punches, bites, and throw downs, Noa