Chapter 40
Tyler watched Ruby as she stared at his father in the cage. She’d fought and even killed someone like his father.
Father’s mouth was so full of fangs that he couldn’t close his lips. His snout was long and black, while the rest of his face was mottled. He was hairy, like the rest of his kind, but he had a stubby tail which many of them did not.
Standing like a man, he tried to grip the bars of his cage. His hands were paw-like, with stunted protrusions that used to be fingers. He had nails that were thicker than a man’s but not so thick as a wolf’s claws.
His nails were splintered and broken. Two of them were actually ripped all the way to the edge, looking like they’d been pulled out.
There was nothing that Tyler could do about any of it. He couldn’t so much as put a banda
