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and other items sat on the porch away from the rain.
    “The window didn’t come from him. It was from her.” I whipped around to face him. Now I was more confused than ever.
    “She must have followed your scent; tracked you. Now that you are... one of us, I have to prepare you. But I can fix it.”
    Now that was the only sane thing I’d heard since he started talking. “You can leave and live your life somewhere else.” Out of his pocket appeared the same envelope I used to pay him a year’s worth of rent.
    “I can get you out of town, and you can live your life without anyone knowing. Controlling your transforms is easy once you practice.”
    He’d made love to me, argued with me, and now he wanted me to leave like none of that happened?
    My life was ruined, and every day I lived it seemed to get worse. First I lost my boyfriend and my job, then I came here and met this gorgeous man that turned out to be an animal, and now I was turning into one, too.
    My legs buckled underneath me and I fell back onto the couch.
    “Are you okay? You have to leave at once, and I need you to be strong. Let me get you something to eat,” he said, pulling me into an embrace and rubbing my arms.
    “No!” I didn’t mean to shout as I pushed him away.
    “I’m sorry I did this. It’s my fault—I should have known better I know it is scary, but I will fix it.”
    “No... I’m not leaving,” I told him, feeling stronger now, as if I had gotten a shot of caffeine. “I’m not leaving this town.”
    Warren’s brow furrowed. “This is not what your grandmother would have wanted.”
    “Dammit, quit bringing her into things.” I was tired of him mentioning her. My grandma had nothing to do with this situation. Maybe this was my destiny to be like them. Grandma knew about them, and she wasn’t afraid. It was my fault for ever coming here and allowing my damn hormones to rage out of control.
    “No, you must hear this. She wouldn’t have wanted it because it goes against all that she fought against in keeping you safe.”
    He wasn’t making any sense again, and I’d had enough.
    “I’m not leaving, and that is that.”
    “Your grandmother would want you to leave so you wouldn’t be like her.” I stopped in my tracks. Slowly turning around, I let the words sink into my brain.
    “Your grandma was a werewolf, too.”

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    “W hat do you mean, my grandma was a werewolf?!” I felt the anger rising in me. How dare he make up some damn lie about my grandma—and she was dead!
    “Calm down, or you’re going to turn.” He said the words, but I didn’t care if it meant I would turn into some hairy beast. I stepped closer to him; my cold, shivering body now increasing in temperature.
    “All those times you went to the lake; that picture of her at the lake with my grandfather; she was trying to help others not turn. And your trips to the lake were to stop you from turning.”
    I thought back to how insistent she was that I go with her on those mini-vacations to the lake; how we spent all day swimming and playing games in the water. Even when the other kids were gone, Grandma had insisted that we stay.
    “But my mom isn’t a werewolf.” I tried to reason with this information.
    Warren sighed. “Sometimes it skips a generation.”
    Shit... My world just got tipped upside-down. I wanted to be as far away from Warren as possible, yet I also wanted to cry on his shoulder. Looking down, I realized that I was still in this damn robe with no clothes underneath.
    “So you mean to tell me last night having sex with you and swallowing your cum has now caused me to be able to... shift into a wolf?” He nodded as if it were that simple.
    A trillion questions shot through my head. Namely, how was this even possible, and why should I believe him?
    “Stop scratching your arm.” Warren came to my side, pulling my hand away. Looking down, I saw that I now had red scratches that were so deep they had begun to bleed. My nails were now