"Because otherwise, she would be treated like she's not there at all," he snarls in return. "The professors don't know how to handle humans because there are so little of them. They treat them like glass, put them on a pedestal to be admired and are so careful not to let them get hurt that they don't get touched at all. You are the one how's supposed to show them that it's okay to treat her like a wolf, that she can handle it."
Nicholas does not look convinced.
"When I was a child, my mother insisted on bringing me to every new place I wanted to go to," he says softly. "She was a wolf, you see, and my father was a bear. I was the only bear in my class. My classmates were scared of me, terrified of my father, really. Most of them have never seen a bear shifter before. They didn't know if
