CHAPTER NINE
REED STEPPED OUT the back door, shifting as soon as his feet hit the soft grass, his muscles popping and snapping as his body transformed, and he allowed his wolf to take over. He needed to run, to feel the Washington air brush against his coat, to smell the sweet aromas of the surrounding trees and bushes. He needed to expend the energy that bottled up within before he exploded in a rage of regret, both for the past as well as the future, each twisting his present into a knot of anguish. Hayley appearing on his doorstep was the last thing he expected to happen. He just assumed once he left the college, she’d be out of his life, and he would be able to force his wolf to forget her. However, all his wolf wanted to do right then was race off after her, taking her, and claiming
