Chapter 130 Ava: The Party (I)

The party is in the heart of the Westwood pack lands, neighboring Granite City. A quiet road leads from an urban metropolis to a quiet and rural town, too small to be called a suburb.

Only shifters live here.

A prickling, wrong sort of feeling crawls over my skin, and Lisa grabs my hand when she notices how tense I am.

"It'll be fine," she assures me, with all the confidence in the world.

I hope she's right.

Just keep your ears and nose open, Selene says, sounding a little grumpy. She's stuck in the apartment because there's no way to explain to the guards at the door why I would just let my dog go roaming the world on her own.

I will, I promise, even though my ears and nose aren't much better than the average human's.

A little better. But not that much better.

"You both have your phones, right?" Kellan asks as he drives, as if he hasn't asked the exact same question three other times already.

"Yes," we chorus dutifully.

"And my phone number?"

"Yes."

"What time am I picking you up?"

"Eleven at the latest," Lisa sighs.

"And your drink of choice?"

respond to this one, because Lisa's too

can't drink. That's the entire point of

turning off on a side road. It's lined with trees, and I

if their wolves ever go after

often lose control, and wolves get

the same thing happen in Blackwood. But

anything homemade at the party, and don't drink anything that comes out

Dad," Lisa chirps, before leaning to whisper in my

"I can hear you."

wanted you

their banter distract me from that foreboding feeling creeping and crawling over me. It's probably just anxiety.

flipping of my stomach, knowing that I'll at least

I

will be fine, Selene

you sure about

wouldn't hurt

made for shifters as a human, trying not to focus too much on the urge to run back to

to be alone. Even as suffocated

your mindset if you want your life to follow a different path,

again, with her impeccable and slightly

I know. I'm trying.

hard to let go of all those negative feelings, when they're all you've ever

as

with Kellan. They were friendly to me there. It was

Have faith.

to say, hard to

grass. Shifters mill about, some heading into the house while others spill out

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