Zeke swallowed hard.
She shook her head. “No. Let me tell you. I told him fine. I didn’t like being referred to as weird. He didn’t know I was a shifter and I wanted to keep that to myself. Humans treat you weird when they think of you as an animal. He was well known and could get all the other kids in school to gang up on me. I didn’t need that. So, I told him to show me whatever it is I had to see. He turned onto a road that wasn’t much more than a dirt path. He drove for a few minutes through the woods. He stopped in a small clearing that looked to be a popular place to park since the ground had been pummeled into dirt and sand.
“I glanced around the area, seeing nothing but trees. I told him I didn’t see anything and he said it was through the woods about fifty feet. At the time, I w
