Chapter 0436

Nina

When I looked up at the full moon peeking out from behind the clouds, I felt an overwhelming urge to shift.

Even though we had somehow been standing in that spot for hours without realizing it, I wasn't ready to go inside just yet. I still had a decision to make: would I return to Mountainview, or would I stay with my father?

"What do you say we stay out a little bit longer?" I asked Enzo.

Enzo grinned and nodded. We shifted together into our wolf forms. Our human forms twisted and turned into wolves, our skin turned into fur, our eyes glowed. We looked at each other for a few moments, taking in one another's non-human appearance as our newfound vigor and strength flowed through us. Then, with Enzo in the lead this time, we leaped off into the darkening forest.

We ran for a long time without stopping, just feeling the cold air rippling through our fur and the sensation of freedom in our legs. The forest smelled thickly of pine and the air smelled as though it was about to snow any minute. As we leaped over fallen trees and small gullies, there was no destination in mind; we just wanted to run. We wanted to run freely, with no shackles holding us down, no fear, no pain. It felt good, yet oddly strange at the same time, to run without having to worry about running into battle or being chased by the forces of evil.

At one point, we broke through the woods to find ourselves in a large, open field that was surrounded on all sides by trees. Grinning, I dashed forward, feeling Enzo nipping at me from behind, and we raced around the field with wild abandon. We tumbled on the ground together and play fought, nipping at each other's fur as our own human laughter echoed in our heads. It still felt almost unnatural to speak without really speaking in our wolf forms, to communicate telepathically, but something about it also felt beautiful. To be able to communicate without having to say a single word out loud only made me feel even more connected to my mate, and I loved every second of it.

fall. The dark green branches of the pine trees started to become covered by a light white dust, brightening the entire forest. I hoped that it would snow heavily, that it would blanket Selena's fresh grave, that we would wake up to several feet of snow outside in the

back into our human forms. There was a large boulder on one side of it, and we sat down on it together. Enzo wrapped his arm around me as I leaned my head

a decision?" Enzo asked quietly

the place that my mother and my sister used to know so well. I want to start fresh and put all of the horrible things that happened in Mountainview behind me...

The way that the world fell silent when it snowed, as though the earth went to sleep, was a welcome distraction from the noise. I just wished

in his spot and shook his head thoughtfully. "You know, when my dad first told me that we were leaving the werewolf realm and that we were going to live in Mountainview, I was furious," he said with a bit of a chuckle. "I loved it here. The thought

him. "You've never told me

dad made me have a

a bad taste in my mouth about shallow humans, about human society... But then I met you." He looked over at me then, and his brown eyes sparkled with the reflection of the falling snow. "You changed that for me,

widened

couldn't tell. "You showed me that humans are amazing, and they're strong, and they're loving. You introduced me to people who I never would have even spoken to otherwise. You showed me that a pack doesn't need to

bottle around the fire and when Lori and Jessica kissed for the first time and when we hiked up the mountain together. Even despite the incident with K and the fact that James eventually turned out to be a traitor, only thought about the good things about that trip. I wanted more

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