Before we left the cabin, I extended my paranormal senses and realized the shifter I’d sensed earlier was indeed on the move. Good. They heard my summons. Whoever they were, they were moving quickly, and I decided it’d be better to keep Celeste in this cabin until they arrived. It wasn’t much, but at least it wasn’t the exposed wilderness.
It didn’t take long for the shifter to arrive in the hulking form of a grizzly bear, nudging past the broken door. As soon as he laid eyes on us, he took a step back and shifted into his human form.
A middle-aged man stood before us, hands tucked into his black and red-checked vest as he tried to give us a once-over without meeting my eyes. It was obvious he knew at once who I was, even as his messy salt-and-pepper hair fell over his forehead. His curi
