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"If youʼre referring to Charlie, then yes, I had already guessed that he was a Shifter But he isnʼt my boyfriend"

"Are you sure Charlie knows that?"

After the intel I got from Jase and Charlieʼs earlier conversation I found I didnʼt really kno to answer I kept openingca the tree to see et out, "Charlie has a girlfriend I irl who isnʼtyou that for Christ his chin towards the hippo that peeked out from the top of my coat

"How do you know itʼs fro on his elboards me, pulled back, and shifted his knees shifted away froave it to you, or heʼs been wearing your jewelry"

"You can smell him on it?"

"Did you know that a wolfʼs sense of sreater than a humanʼs?"

"Actually, yes I did" I didnʼtI could find on wolves over the last month "I just didnʼt expect that you would be able to do that when you were, you know, a biped"

"Not always I can only do it now because we just had a full o

The closer we are to a full moon, the , sense of ser, ins to wan, the extra-sensitive senses go with it, until weʼre al "So, the day of the fullin a classroom and smell a pizza from a mile away" And impressive "Itʼs like you have super-powers"

"Youable to turn into a wolf?"

"Oh, like that makes you special," I said withof so?" he snarled I caught a glied for me My heart and breath both abandoned ed to grab hi the force to flip us over as we fell back so I landed on top I quickly leapt to ht have been able to best Alex in human form, but there was no way I could take on a wolf I conteh to make it to the house before the transformation was complete

"That will teachHe wasnʼt changing into a wolf, he was laughing

"You jerk!" I roared "I thought you were going to turn into a wolf and eat ave into temptation and planted ht you not to kick a ht you not to scare a girl to death for no good reason?"

"I thought ninjas eschewed fear" Alex sat up, brushing twigs and grass froe unless the moon is full Iʼm not a Doitation

"Shifters, like natural wolves, have a hierarchy based on strength The stronger the wolf, the higher their social standing But with Shifters, itʼs based on more than the ability to smack down all the other wolves You have to have control over your ani a full s frohts"

Alex sat on the ground, a la criss-cross-applesauce, and I paced in front of him "You say that like itʼs an enviable quality Why would soe?"

"Besides the do the wolf is

Itʼs ath or the super-powers Running through the woods, being part of nature in so Intoxicating" His entire body became ani the chase is The moment you finally close the distance between yourself and your prey is the single ht written all over his face The iddy