Chapter 10

The first time I shifted, I thought I was dying again. It happened on the fourth night, in a rented cabin on the cold coast of Nova Scotia. My spine cracked. My skin split into fur. I screamed, and the scream became a howl. When it was over, I stood on four legs in front of a cracked mirror. A wolf stared back at me. Silver-white. Enormous. Eyes like the full moon. The wolf from my dream. I called my father on an encrypted line. Broke my promise to Seraphina without a second thought. "Dad. I...