First, the bodies. They had to go before anything else.
I shifted to wolf form. They were heavy, but I was strong — stronger than any natural wolf, stronger than most men. I dragged them out through the back door, one at a time, away from the driveway. Couldn't risk drag marks on the road where someone might see.
The creek was a quarter mile through the woods. I pulled them into the icy water, wedged them under rocks to keep them from floating, and left them there. The cold would preserve them. The water would start washing away evidence. They'd keep until I was ready.
Then I went back to the cabin.
The rug was soaked — blood spreading in dark stains that would never come out. No amount of scrubbing would fix this.
I shifted back to human, rolled the whole thing up, and added it to th
