Two months later I slept like sh!t, my nerves having kept me up most of the night. Today was the day. I was finally going through the first and most important step of joining Maverick as a full wolf. Since Elise had already run my blood, she and Stu were able to create the serum I needed while they packed up and moved to Silvercrest. I started on the supplements and treatments shortly after we returned. Since Maverick was already adding onto the pack clinic, we made three of the rooms into “changing” suites. (Though they needed a better name.) We were expecting a steady stream of wolves foreign to our pack, so security around the pack had been completely revamped. You now needed a fingerprint to get into all the pack buildings. Some areas required two-levels of security—a fingerprint and

