Chapter Eighteen

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

I settle into the merriment.

For the first time in a long time, I feel at peace.

I decide to head out and look at the moon.

It is the moon that made me such a powerful wolf, after all.

I leave the party.

The music ebbs behind me.

The wind is cool, rustling my fur.

I have not used my human form for so long.

But I transform now.

I want to see if the moon changed my human body as much as it did my wolf one.

I shift.

My wolf form disappears and my human form emerges.

I study my arms.

They look the same.

They feel the same.

The power in me only exists when I am a wolf.

As a human, I am just Kayla again.

No one special.

"Hello, Kayla," a voice says from behind.

I turn my head.

I can see the outline of a wolf stalk toward me.

He turns to a man as he goes.

He is tall.

Taller than Shane.

"Tanner?" I ask, hopefully.

"No," a deep voice answers.

I feel a jolt of disappointment.

Tanner is truly gone now.

I know that to be true.