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Would he?
He nudges me with his nose, pushing me into the corner of the room. I move along with him. He clearly wants me over here, and I’m not about to argue.
Then he turns and runs right at the window. He howls as he leaps through it. It’s too small for him, but his powerful body pulls the window straight out of the frame.
I yell and reach out as though I can stop him, but then Ramsey’s gone, a jagged hole in the wall, with bits of wood and glass everywhere.
That’s why he moved me.
He had to leave.
But he still wanted to keep me safe.
He was thinking of me, even then, even when he was clearly losing control.
Losing control forme.
Liam pushes the door open, looking at me and then the hole in the wall.
My instinct is to cover myself after what Ramsey and I just did. But he didn’t take my clothes off.
What will happen when he does?
I’ll freak, and he’ll...change, run, almost lose control.
“Where’s he going?” I whisper.
“My guess would be to run it off.” Liam wanders over to the window. “He changed quickly. That only happens when somebody is extremely well-trained or completely loses control. It can be dangerous changing that fast. Ramsey wouldn’t have done it on purpose, not without reason.”
“What can we do?” I ask, peering into the darkness.
Liam sighs. “We’ll get ready to leave. I doubt the hunters will know to check here, but he’s letting off too much scent. We can’t risk it.”
“He wasn’t going to hurt me,” I say.
Liam turns to me and sighs. “I hope you’re right. But I’ve only ever heard of this happening once.”
“What happening?”
“Has Ramsey told you?”
“He said it was my scent,” I mutter, nodding. “Is that what you mean?”
“Yeah. Scent is often part of the attraction for us, but how powerfully you’re affecting Ramsey, I only know of one case. I told Ramsey about it. It’s part of why he’s running; I’d bet. He doesn’t want the same to happen.”
“What happened?”
Liam grinds his teeth. “The wolf killed its lover. They lost control.”
I shake my head before he’s even done talking. “Do you really think Ramsey would kill me?”
“No,” Liam snaps. “I don’t. I’ve known him since we were kids. He likes to say I mentored him, but the truth is we helped each other. I was as lost as he was. We’re like brothers. Ramsey’s the best man I know, the best wolf I know. But the danger of our kind is arrogance, thinking we’re above our instincts.Allwolves can reach a point where the man is lost, and there’s only the beast. It takes training to become both a man and a predator.”
I stay silent, waiting for him to go on. My curiosity flares, thinking about Ramsey the wolf, Ramsey the man, and how it all fits together.
“Ramsey has that training,” Liam says. “He’s better than me at many techniques. He’s capable. He’s calm. I’ve never, not since we were kids anyway, seen him change like that.”
I stare into the darkness, then flinch when I hear it. Ramsey’s howl is coming from what seems like impossibly far away, through the forest, more a faint echo than anything.
