All Chapters of The Great Wolf: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Amerie sat huddled in a blanket on the couch as she shuddered uncontrollably. Everett was pacing in her living room, occasionally glancing into the backyard. Milo sat by the back door on high alert and growled at the slightest movement outside. He’d been frantic and uneasy when Amerie got home. They knew who she was. They knew where she lived. She wasn’t safe. Everett had refused to leave her home alone. He’d consoled her and listened carefully as Amerie explained what the blood and crow meant. Without hesitation, he had offered for her and Milo to stay with him for the time being. Amerie had agreed but asked to wait for Apollo and Mae before they left. Everett helped her pack a couple bags and they now sat in the trunk of her car along with Milo’s food and bed. Milo growled lowly and then stopped and wagged his tail. A tap on the glass of the back door made Amerie jump. “I think it’s Mae,” Everett informed her. Amerie craned her neck and saw Mae standing with a longbow on her back

Amerie flopped onto the snowy ground with a huff. Her muscles were sore from the long hour of training in the dark, but her power was still reeling to come out. It was endless. Simmering embers covered the moonlit ground of the clearing in orange specks. A small fire remained lit just inches from her right hand, the melted snow around it starting to turn to ice as the flames receded. Her aim and concentration had been true throughout the training, and the others bore small singe marks to prove it.Celena had not held back in the training when Amerie visited her in the pool. While the expanse of her powers were still unknown, other abilities Amerie had yet to uncover had surfaced during the training. In this world she had only been asleep in the water for an hour. In Amerie’s reality, she had spent the majority of two days training with Celena without breaks. She needed to continue practicing to allow the powers to bloom into their full potential, but in the time she spent with the god

Amerie struggled to stay awake at her desk. It was barely eleven and she was already on her third cup of coffee. A wide yawn brought tears to her stinging eyes, blurring her computer screen. She had selected one of the field assignments Allen had offered her and was in the process of filling out the necessary forms in order to start field research the next day. A knock at her open door had her biting back a groan as she looked up. Tyler stood there with a stack of papers in his hands. She nodded for him to enter. His eyes darted around the office hallway as he stepped in and shut the door behind him. He slowly lowered himself into the green armchair in front of her desk as he took a deep breath. She sat up straight and flipped her hair behind her shoulders. “What’s up, Tyler?” The slight rasp in her voice gave away her exhaustion, though she knew her bloodshot eyes probably didn’t hide that fact either. He fidgeted and looked behind him before turning back to her and speaking lowly

“Thanks for helping me,” Amerie said quietly to the short werewolf beside her. “Of course. Glad to be out of the office working on something that actually matters.”“Bobcats matter,” Amerie countered. Laney gave her a small grin. “Sure. If the Embertaurs don’t wipe us all out first.”“Right.” Amerie fell silent and eyed the brown and orange leaves on the ground around them. Twigs and dead leaves beneath the remaining snow crunched under their boots. The few straggling birds sang their welcome, surely about to join others down south within the coming days as the cold and snow approached. Laney sighed. “I wonder how Matt is doing. There’s no word on when he’s returning to work. Bobcats are cute and all and I’m happy to help while he’s out, but I’d like to get back to monitoring the elk. It’s been a busy hunting season and I need to start to get an idea of how many cows are going to drop calves now that the rut is nearly over.” She pushed a low hanging branch out of her way and held i

Apollo burst through the doors of the mansion. “What the hell happened?” he growled in a voice not completely human. His golden eyes were dark, his fingers curled at his side as if claws would sprout from the fingertips at any moment. Charlotte’s golden head peaked out from behind his large frame. Kierian panted heavily as he held Amerie in his arms, a piece of his torn shirt tied tightly around her bleeding arm. Her hands were pressed firmly against her side where the Embertaur had sliced her. Behind them, Mae held an unconscious Laney. A stream of blood ran down Mae’s arm and to the ground from Laney’s unnaturally angled leg. Brynn’s blue eyes were wide and fiery, her eyebrows furrowed together as she scanned the tree line on either side of the mansion. Amerie’s eyes fluttered as she fought to stay conscious. She had somehow managed to stay awake on the run to the house but every ounce of her energy had been drained away. Her head began to spin. “Everett,” her voice cracked weakly