Chapter 18
I had no choice but to shift into human form right in front of the teacher. By that time, Lupe had completely donned her own fur, so we looked like nothing so much as a mirror image of the scene Mrs. Sawyer had preserved for posterity only moments earlier.
Well, we looked like a considerably more peaceful mirror image of that scene. Because while our inner beasts made us aggressive and unpredictable at times, wolves also enjoyed a simple acceptance of the established dominance order that two-leggers could only envy. Lupe had acknowledged me as her alpha, so all danger from that direction had passed.
But the sedate wolf now panting obediently at my feet wasn’t the only peril we had to contend with. I’d heard the first shrill bursts of sirens in the distance as I shifted and no
