Page 272 of His Hungry Wolf
“Me,” Cage said annoyed.
I laughed. “Right! Mr. Rucker. Well, I’m sure you’re in good hands. He got me my scholarship.”
“And now they’re lucky they have you. Don’t screw things up. I need my credibility in tack for this one,” Cage joked.
“Oh shit! You’re screwed,” I said turning to Cali.
Cali looked at Cage scared.
“He’s kidding. Nero, tell him you’re kidding.”
“I’m kidding… sort of.”
Cali looked at me not sure what to think.
“Cali, do I hear you in there?”
Cali looked towards the kitchen then quickly slipped out the door. Dr. Sonya entered the room and looked around.
“You just missed him,” I told her. “He mentioned something about football.” It was technically true.
Dr. Sonya looked at Cage. Cage shrugged.
“Well, he left more fun for us,” she concluded with a smile.
It turned out that organizing a wolf run was a lot more work than I would have guessed. When the three of us did it on Sunday nights, Cage showed up, we drove up to woods, we found somewhere to pull over, and we did it. No one needed a human for that.
But, apparently, you do the same thing with every shifter in town and you’re slapped with a mind-numbing amount of politics. Dr. Sonya needed to be there to give the non-shifter perspective, which was, in short, the humans and fae were gonna be terrified.
She confirmed what I always thought which was that a lot of people in town were scared of us. Sure, they acted friendly when we were around them. But they never forgot that we could shift at will and kill them.
“We should make the humans and fae a part of this somehow?” Cage suggested.
“A part of a wolf run?” I asked thinking it was a ridiculous idea.
“No. I think that’s a good idea,” Dr. Sonya confirmed. “But how? The last thing we want is for one of them to end up getting eaten or something,” she joked.
I didn’t think it was funny. As far as I could tell, neither did Cage or Quin.
“We’ll give it some thought,” Cage said bringing things to an end.
“But, I can pass along that non-shifters are going to be invited, right?” the doctor asked.
“For sure,” Cage confirmed. “We’ll just have to figure out how.”
Free from Dr. Sonya’s organizing clutches, the three of us considered doing a daytime run but decided against it. We could talk on a hike and the trails surrounding the town were world-class. We found one outside the protective spell’s boarders and headed to it. Walking amongst the trees with all of my senses again in tact calmed my tense wolf.
“You really think it’s a good idea to involve non-shifters in a wolf run?” I asked Cage knowing he could now answer honestly.
“I’m not suggesting they run with us or anything. But you heard her, they’re scared of us. How do we expect to live together as equals if they’re terrified that we could shift at any moment and eat them?”
“It’s not our job to convince them of anything,” I made clear.
“It shouldn’t be. But, if we don’t do, how will they know? It’s not like wolf attacks haven’t happened.”
“You can’t blame every wolf for something one wolf did,” I reminded him. “Do we blame every human for the crappy things humans have done? No. So, why should it be different for us?”
“You’re right. We don’t have to do anything. We could keep things the way they are. And we could remain wolves without a pack living under a fae’s protection spell.”