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I’d wanted to tell him earlier when he’d been at my apartment, but pack business had come up, and… maybeI’dbeen the topic of the “pack business” he’d referred to.
Shit.
I was in so much trouble.
I stayed in fox form. I didn’t have any clothes now that I’d shifted. My key was still in my pocket back at the club, and I couldn’t change into human form without drawing attention to my naked self. A woman naked in downtown LA was asking for all kinds of trouble. Or arrest.
I couldn’t afford any of that now.
I crouched behind a metal bin, trying to figure out what to do next.
Nadia.
She had a spare key to my place—I’d never been a fan of hiding one under a plant pot or on top of a light or anything the way they did in the movies, and I wasn’t stupid enough not to have a spare at all.
Besides, she could give me clothes, which I desperately needed.
I just had to get to her place without being seen.
As a bright red fox, I couldn’t just pass for a cat, but if I was careful, maybe I could make it.
It took a lot time for me to get to the apartment building where she lived. I had to wait for traffic to pass and leave me a gap to cross the road. I wove through alleys and stuck to shadows, and I hid behind bins or boxes to avoid people seeing me where I could.
A few times, people might have caught a glimpse of me, but I moved on so fast, they could have imagined it.
It was the one time I counted my lucky stars I was a fox and not something big and obscure like a dragon shifter, which only existed in stories to humans, or a bear they would try to save by darting and taking me away.
Who would have thought I would be so happy to be a fox?
When I reached Nadia’s apartment, I scratched against her door like a dog wanting to be let in. No windows were open.
When the door finally opened, Danny looked down at me. His dark hair flopped over his forehead, and he looked lankier and taller than how I remembered him.
He frowned. “What’s this?”
“Who is it?” I heard Nadia call from inside.
“It’s a fox.”
“Oh, my God,” Nadia said and yanked the door open. “Oaklee.”
I ran into the apartment, and she shut the door. When I shifted, Danny jerked his head around.
“Geez,” he said. “Naked much?”
“I need your help,” I said to Nadia, ignoring Danny and his innocence. Seriously, we were all shifters—hadn’t he ever seen someone naked before?
Nadia led me to the room and closed the door.
“I need clothes,” I said, wrapping my arms around myself. “And my key.”
“What’s going on?” she asked.
I burst into tears.
While she found clothes for me and I pulled them on, I explained to her what had happened. I told her about Jameson knowing, about how angry he was, and how he’d wanted to attack me.
“Carletta stopped him, which was unexpected,” I sniveled when I was dressed in jeans, a t-shirt, and a hoodie. I pulled on the sneakers Nadia offered me. “I don’t know why she thought I deserved a second chance, but I’m so glad, because Jameson was so pissed.” I hiccupped and angrily wiped my eyes. My makeup had to look terrible by now after all my crying. I walked to the mirror and tried to do damage control, but I looked more like a drowned raccoon than anything else.
