Several hours later, Noah drove home. After he talked to Hank Anderson, he stopped by Jake’s office. Between the two, they had plenty to follow up on after he filled them in on the details from Derek. Though this didn’t change the upheaval winding its way through the shifter community in Catamount, Noah felt lighter. He’d carried the assumption that people thought he was like his father around for too long. His mother’s point and today’s interactions had shown him it wasn’t as simple as he’d thought. If anything, he supposed he should have known how it looked that he’d stayed out of Catamount until after his father died.
After he got home, he headed into the woods behind his mother’s house for a run. He was still getting used to the fact that he could disappear into the woods and let his
