The next following days were hectic. Everyone was busy making the final arrangements for John's inauguration, John included. Isabel had asked several times if there was anything she could do to help, but was always getting the answer that they got it covered and that she should keep on practicing her fighting skills. Hence, Isabel was spending most of the time with Chloe, who was overly excited about Isabel being a hybrid. Whenever they weren't practicing in the fighting pit or out running, Chloe was doing everything she could think of to awaken Isabel's inner wolf. "I don't have one!" Isabel objected for the seventy-eleven-hundredth time. "I'm too old. I should have shifted ten years ago!" "But maybe it's dormant," Chloe insisted. She had been dragging Isabel to the library several ti

