Page 94 of Wolf Unseen

“Again?!” He stared at me in surprise.

“Yeah. He shifted and went for a guy before trotting off after some random female. A female who was immune to my alpha command.” I huffed, still salty about that.

Tobias blinked. “Female?”

I tried hard not to show my irritation. Was that really all he took from what I’d just told him? Goddess, save me from my stupid friends.

“Yes, female! But I’m more concerned about Tank shifting again.” My fists clenched at my sides. “Marcel will be furious, and Dad won’t be happy either.”

Not to mention both academies. They didn’t allow shifting at school socials.

Thank fuck Hunter Leone and Roxanne Raven were our supervisors this evening. Roxanne Raven would be too busy fucking a student outside, and Leone had vanished a while back. He hadn’t looked happy about being here. I hoped he’d gone off into the grounds to commune with nature or some such bullshit.

“What did the female look like?”

I snarled with exasperation at Tobias’s question. “Does it fucking matter? We need to find Tank and get him to shift back before anyone uploads a fucking video to ShifterTok!”

“Did she have red hair?” Tobias stood his ground, ignoring my furious snarl. “And a white dress and angel wings?”

My eyes narrowed to slits. “Yes. Why are you asking me this? Is there something I’m missing here?” The female had smelled delicious, and my wolf had definitely sat up and taken notice, but I’d been too busy worrying about Tank shifting to pay much attention to him.

“She smells of burned sugar, just like Riley. I think they might be related.” The shifty way he avoided my eyes suggested there was more to this than he was saying but now was not the time to argue.

“For fuck’s sake, I don’t give a shit about the female, Tobias. Now help me track down our brother so we can drag his stupid wolf away before he eats someone and gets himself thrown in the penitentiary!”

57

Riley

The music faded as I followed a wide corridor away from the ballroom until eventually, blissful silence reigned. The giant wolf trotted after me, tongue lolling out as he padded along the polished floor like a protective shadow.

I caught glimpses of students hiding behind doors with expressions of terror, and I fought back a smirk. Why was everyone terrified of Tank’s wolf? He wasn’t that scary. More of a naughty puppy than an apex predator. At least with me.

For a split second when he leaped toward me in the ballroom, I’d wondered if my life was about to end in an explosion of blood and guts, but the moment his golden eyes focused on me, I knew the beast recognized me and my she-wolf.

He couldn’t speak, obviously, but he sensed who I was, and my wolf reacted with joy at his proximity. She continued to whine and spin in circles, proud that the big, scary alpha was following us like a love-struck Chihuahua.

But amusing as this was, I knew I needed to persuade the wolf to shift back. Tate had acted as if Tank shifting without warning was a major problem. I didn’t know the rules about shifting at a school ball, but I had a feeling Tank would now be in trouble.

“You need to give Tank his body back,” I told the wolf when we reached a thick wooden door. I hoped it led outside, but since I wasn’t familiar with the building, I couldn’t be sure.

The wolf rumbled and huffed loudly. He sat back on his haunches while I tried the door handle. It clicked open to reveal a dark room filled with shelves upon shelves of books. Moonlight flooded in from roof windows high above, illuminating a mezzanine floor on two sides, connected by a spiral staircase.

The design reminded me of the library at Moonfall Academy, and I gazed around in awe for a few seconds before remembering I had a big-ass wolf problem sitting two feet away, panting and drooling all over the floor.

Oh well, at least it was private in here.

“Tate’s mad at you.” Tank’s wolf blinked at me and huffed again. “I think he’s worried because you shifted and threatened that weasel asshole.” I chewed my lip, unhappy about the idea of Tank being arrested by the Shifter Council stooges while simultaneously thrilled that he’d leaped to my defense yet again.

The Shifter Council usually sent a mage task force to arrest shifters and other magicals accused of crimes. Felix claimed the magical penitentiaries were full of lesser magicals awaiting trial for crimes they hadn’t committed.

Tank didn’t deserve that fate.

“Look, I don’t want you to get into trouble,” I told the wolf. The beast shook himself and then slunk forward, shoving his nose into my crotch and causing me to stumble and fall backward onto a thick rug with my dress hiked up.

“Hey, that’s rude!” I yelped in a mix of annoyance and embarrassment at flashing my bits at a wolf. He huffed up my scent and rumbled loudly. Goddess, did I smell bad or something? Or worse, could he smell Tobias’s scent on me?

The wolf showed me his teeth. Then he licked my thigh and rested his head there, staring up at me in blatant adoration.