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“A laugh riot, I’m sure.” I could feel the heaviness of the rising moon and the gentle tingle along my skin. “It’s almost time. Do you have your phone on you?”
Billy Bob dug it out of his pocket. I pulled up a text and added contacts as quickly as I could. I typed in:All is well. Bad guy dead. Happy full moon.
“You’re like a ninja with that thing.” He kissed me softly, sweetly, and so sexily it made my hair sizzle.
“We’re not having sex as wolves.”
“It is a full moon. We’ll be running on pure instinct, baby.”
“Not this girl.” I laughed then, and it felt really great.
“Did you really eat a full grown person in a few bites?”
“Uhm, I don’t think there was much biting going on. It was more like I swallowed him whole.”
Billy Bob raised his brows, suddenly very interested.
I smacked him hard across the chest.
“Ow,” he said, rubbing his hand over the healing wound.
“I’m sorry!”
He grabbed me in his arms and pulled me onto his lap. “I really do love you, Chavvah Adine Trimmel.”
“Who told you my middle name?”
“A doctor has his ways.”
“Sunny.”
“Yep.”
“I love you right back, William Robert Smith.”
He cringed. “I won’t call you Adine again, as long as you never call me William Robert ever again. It was my father’s name, not mine.”
“I’d rather call you Doc, anyhow.” I booped his nose with the tip of my finger. “My favorite character in Snow White.”
“You can call me Doc or Sleepy or Horny.”
“Is that the eighth dwarf?”
He smiled and leaned his head back, the gray in his eyes swirling. “I love the magic of the moon.”
I’d never thought of the full moon as magic. It had always been like getting my period—a monthly visitor I had to deal with no matter how unpleasant the side effects. At this moment, I understood what Billy Bob meant, and in many ways, I’d become a believer. How else could I explain turning into a big, scary spirit guardian? That shit had nothing to do with biology.
You are learning, child.
It pleased me that he thought so. The air rippled around us. “It’s coming,” I said.
I hoped his wolf loved mine as much as he loved me and vice versa.
Not in that way! Though we’d be animals, so no judging.
The change was swift for both of us, and when our beasts had completely replaced us, our human thoughts faded.
