Chapter 16
Stormwinder requested an in-person debriefing, and I was elated enough by my success that I was glad to comply. I’d righted a wrong without spilling any blood and had managed my inner monster in the process without feeling a twinge of rebellion. This was the meaning I’d been looking for. This was the partnership I’d sought with my wolf. For the first time in a long time, I’d been thoroughly challenged and hadn’t come up short.
But my passion cooled as I drove further south. The part of the country I passed through was much more rife with werewolves than the coastal location where I’d spent most of my adulthood, so I stumbled across more than a few shifters when I stopped to pump gas and fill my belly. Some were weak outpack drifters intent upon scraping by without getting jump
