It was possible his reluctance had more to do with the fact that the man wasn’t human. He was a were. Some kind of cat, not wolf, but like Barrett Miller and Marc Jared, turned not born. Had to be rough living inside the city limits of Austin. Texans might mistake the shadowy outline of a wolf for a dog, but no way they’d mistake a large wildcat for a stray. Cat, dog, wolf, Rafe wouldn’t care. He had a raging hate-on for all monsters. At least it seemed that way. Weird, considering. Rafe, like me, wasn’t fully human. Monsters were defined by more than their lack of humanity. Monsters preyed on humans, and people like Rafe, my sisters, and me, we protected humanity. That said, we were neither human nor monster, but somewhere in between the two. For a guy who wasn’t entirely human himse

