Chapter 29
One breath Jacob was human. The next he was lupine.
If we survive this, he’s going to be an impressive werewolf.
The thought danced through my mind as I searched the cavern for a weapon. Because even if not-Val seemed uninterested in me at the moment, I couldn’t leave Jacob to fight this battle on his lonesome. I was his elder. I’d gotten him into this. It was the job of a professor to make sure her students didn’t get eaten by black beasts of doom.
My hysterical laughter wasn’t enough to catch not-Val’s attention. Instead, her single-minded focus remained riveted upon Jacob. She lunged; he evaded. She leapt; he slid across the rock floor on his belly, stopping one inch shy of the water’s edge.
Water! Of course. That was the obvious solution.
Because not-Val seemed to be a
