Valentin didn’t try and meet with me for the whole week after my outburst in his office. I didn’t blame him, I didn’t want his help at all. I continued to train on my own, sometimes with Loren, without him. I wanted to be strong but I didn’t want his attempts at “help.”
They were only dragging me down.
The Monday after my altercation with Valentin and Victoria, classes resumed as usual. Loren no longer felt the need to walk me to shifting, given that I had my own form of protection in the shape of a sassy wolf in the back of my mind with a swishy tail. Monday morning, I walked to the forest alone. I was eager to see what my first shifting class with a wolf would hold.
Don’t get your hopes up, she said in the back of my mind. Shifting is hard.
I can do hard things, I retorted as I rou
