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Werewolves are nocturnal - just like the wolves they resehts, they continue to behave like the animals they are Therefore, at this ti

I hurried down the corridor While ht, the better to simulate the muted rays of the sun, the last was completely dark

As dark as Billy Bailey’s soul would be, if he had one

In front of each cell stood a table with equipment appropriate for that subject’s experiment

I checked the slides I’d made with Billy’s blood I wasn’t sure what I was looking for; I only hoped that when I saw it so, I wasn’t sure I’d ever find the answer

A body slah force to shake the barrier Calaze froainst the see-through sector of his prison

"Billy" I made a notation on his chart

"She-bitch," he said in a conversational tone

"Redundant," I lass

He wanted asp, at least to juive him any more satisfaction than he’d already had in this lifetime?

Out of the corner of loo

Billy Bailey scared the living hell out of ht here, but I was desperate

I’d tried everything I could think of to devise an antidote that would put people back the way they’d been before they were bitten I kept co up empty

I had invented a seru for huent that eradicated the virus if the victie Sadly, the relanced into the darkness where Billy hovered, waiting for me to make a mistake

"You need more blood," he said

His voice slid out of shadows, and I stifled a shiver Billy was alatching , but he wasn’t sure what Because I was like hiends,bitten There are other ways for humans to become furry, of course The list is as endless as the monsters

I was a perfect example I’d spent the first twenty-plus years of my life blissfully unaware of olves

Then one night I had just become

I was a olf, but I didn’t have the demon - shorthand in the J-S society for the psychotic joy insickened me Nevertheless, I was still possessed every month by the lust for blood Hence my first invention

Yet even when I took e whenever the moon was full I had little choice However, no one but myself and Edere aware ofBilly lanced up as he ain from the darkness Billy refused to wear clothes I’h not because of any sexual interest

His extree feet would disturb anyone, even without the crisscross of scars that peppered his chest and back

Since any scars received before a person became a olf remained, I’d come to the conclusion that in his previous life, Billy had been a very bad boy

"Your arhtened Despite the bulletproof glass, I felt the fury pulsing froray eyes were the coldest I’d ever known Just looking into them for an instant could make me nauseous for an hour

"What if I don’t want to give you le

"You know I can ainst the clear wall again Sohtest crayon in the box How lass before he believed it was impenetrable?

"It’s no use, Billy"

Billy had been a trigger away from oblivion when I’d requested his presence inhim for decades, Edward hadn’t wanted to let Billy live

He was a very old olf No one kne old, and Billy wasn’t saying

He’d been very difficult to apprehend since he didn’t play ith others Wolves are social animals, olves, too Very few live their lifetimes alone They seek out those like themselves and create a pack

A lone wolf is not only a dangerous ani loose in the forests and large cities of the world A needle in a haystack had nothing on Billy

His size , except he was as swarthy as a Hun The shape of his face recalled Cro-Magnon y black hair

No matter when Billy had been born, no matter when he was made, the fact remained, he was ancient, deadly, and he’d had practice being crazy for longer than I’d had practice at anything

"When I get out of here I’ to fuck you First in this fore hioing to fuck you until you die"

Though aze and et out of here, Billy Never"

He recited his fantasies of rape, bondage, and torture every ti es They weren’t human

Not really Not anyloves, lifted a syringe, and pushed a button on the wall of the cell A whirring noise preceded the presentation of the contraption for Billy’s arm He was supposed to place his forearm in an indentation Manacles would clamp down, and I could draw blood without risk of injury

Instead of following procedure, Billy ripped the device froe onto the table, as a steel door slid over the hole in the glass

I’d wanted Billy for this very reason He was the oldest living olf on record He couldn’t have existed for the centuries I suspected without incredible strength I was hoping powerful blood would allow me to cure a powerful virus

I considered my options, which were few I’d tested the other olves throughout the cycle of the moon None of theht, and every night for the next week I couldn’t drug him; that would throw off the results I’d have to restrain hi as it was difficult

Billy s, and he couldn’t wait

A frantic howling erupted from the speaker on the wall The real wolves, which I kept outside

Glancing at the clock, I bittime Perhaps a raccoon had trotted past the outdoor run Done a little "na, na, na, na, na" dance on the other side of the fence That always set them off

The howls turned into yips, then lowered to whiht

"They sound upset" Billy bared his teeth in a grin that was ain, and the hair on led

"You’d better check on them" He tilted his head "But that isn’t your job, is it?"