Elowen's POV I raised an eyebrow right back at her. “And what makes you think I have better intentions?” She scoffed and smirked, “well then, you're just the perfect candidate," she grabbed her jacket off the bed, I changed and followed her out into the night. The bar was about twenty minutes from campus on foot, a low-lit place with exposed brick and a sound system that hit you in the sternum before your ears caught up. Maybe for the first time, I was grateful I didn't have my wolf hearing, the bass frequencies would have landed twice as heavy. The crowd noise layered over itself in a way that took a few minutes to tune but I liked it. It was loud enough to drown out the absence of a pack bond, that hollow place in my chest that had been there since Duskbloom, and in a room full of

