5

Adrian gave Scarlett a final withering stare as they heard a knock at the door. She smiled, took his hand, and thanked him profusely before he pulled the door open and left.

With a grimace, she turned back to Riley.

"I hope they don't kill each other," she said. It was a major overreaction, but her worries were valid.

"Oh, you don't have to worry about Adrian." Riley chuckled. "He'll eat her alive and use her bones to pick his teeth afterwards."

"You haven't met Sienna," Scarlett said.

"I've met plenty of Sienna’s," he said, looking her up and down with narrowed eyes.

"I'm nothing like her!" Scarlett cried. "If my Mum had called me something normal like Rebecca I wouldn't even be in the damn popular group."

Riley looked like he wanted to say something but thought better of it. She knew what he was thinking: until her wolf made an appearance, she was basically a human girl. A late bloomer her mother said. It wasn’t at all uncommon to remain shiftless until the age of eighteen. Most wo