Claimed by The Wolf l Ran From
In place of the man who'd knocked on their door stood a wolf nearly as large as Damien had been, fur the color of ash, eyes a pale and startling silver.
Werewolves aren't just real, Emily thought, distantly, the ground shifting again beneath a life that had already stopped making sense. They've been part of my family this whole time.
Outside, the darkness came alive.
Shapes emerged from the tree line at the edge of the yard, one after another, until a dozen wolves ringed the house on every side, moonlight silvering their fur, eyes glinting in the dark. Emily braced for the attack, for teeth and claws and the same violence she'd watched tear a man apart in Blackwood — but none of them moved.