Frustration builds in me, and I blink back tears. I don’t know anything. Clearly. I’m a freaking wolf right now and I have no idea why or how I came to be like this. I bark at him, wanting and needing answers, but he just stares at me. I wish Ethan was here. He would know what to do. At the thought, something inside me urges me to get up, to go to him, and I try. I push my wobbly legs underneath me, but they give out almost immediately, and I flop to the ground with a groan of pain. “I said, don’t move. You don’t want to get hurt even more,” Laxus growls. The anger in his tone also relays worry, and I can smell it on him. Instinctually, I know the heavy, spicy scent is worry. My mind spins as I try to process what’s happening. I need Ethan. “Ethan?! I need you!” Again, there’s n

