“Do I make you nervous?” Tyler moves close behind me and I am frozen. He is way too close to me for this to be considered anything less than flirting or maybe even marking territory.

“Nope. The whole ‘naked guy’ thing is still just not a norm for me. We don’t have to change to shift.” I’m sure my slow controlled breaths make him think I’m lying.

“Mina, why is he so close to me? It’s weird.”

“He thinks you’re playing hard to get, so keep your face straight ahead and don’t make that disgusted look you do all the time.”

“What look? I don’t have a look.”

“You do. I told you, your face says a lot more than your mouth does. Just keep it neutral though, he’s eating this innocent girl thing up.” She giggles at me, then out loud says, “Let’s just show them so they are less confused.”

I nod and I give control over to my wo f to shift while concentrating on all the things Gentry taught us about maintaining our physical appearances while human. The popping and cracking sounds come and go so quickly, I don’t even feel it anymore. My wolf shoes out her beautiful black fur.

pretty rare.” Tyler sounds impressed, but I can’t be the only black wolf out there. “Can I touch you?” he

touched as I am. I don’t

how we do this.” Mina goads me and it feels like she’s showing off a bit

as nervous and I can feel Osiston and Nickolas’ presence nearby, their auras radiating into me to help me stay calm and

right, fully

“How do you do that so fast? And

goes to shift and the other twenty or so people follow suit. Tyler and Mike shift and both look over their shoulders at us. We smile at each other and take offin a jog, shifting as we run. I hear

under my paws. I can feel my claws break into the earth the imprint my paws are making in the freshly tilled ground. The even cadence of my feet as we dart through the trees, up and down hills, over fallen

so the game was interesting. It became a battle of boys versus girls. Mina and I met up with Janice and a few of her friends at the front of the pack. Her wolf didn’t seem to mind us even if she did. We all started sprinting faster and faster, eventually outstripping the rest of the group, leaving Mina, Janice

even looking our way. We shifted and just stood there looking

a forest I have seen, but it still left me with a feeling of peace. The woods have always been my safe haven and everything just feels right when I am surrounded by the trees and all other sounds are dampened

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