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I felt like someone had knocked the air right out of me. I heard Gabe’s breath catch. The crowd of people watched us and laughed, displaying crooked and broken teeth. They were nothing like the vampires; where the vampires had been silent and still, these people were animated, lively even, and where the vampires had been prim and clean-cut, the werewolves were dirty and ragged. But they were not any weaker. They held Ariadne, Ian, and Ash with an iron grip.
The wolf approached us, its paws hitting the ground softly despite its huge frame. It opened its mouth wide in a very human-like sort of smile before morphing into a tall man with angular features, a scruffy chin, and deep shadows under his eyes. I thought he looked familiar; perhaps he was that strange man that I had encountered o
