Ryder slowly looked around his small hotel room. He had found her. The girl he would change to be his own. Even if it meant he wouldn’t be the leader of the pack anymore, he wanted her. He smiled and looked into the mirror, he ran a hand through his hair and sighed. He knew she had fallen for him just as hard as he had fallen for her, now he was going to need to find her. Find her parents, that is where she would be going in a few weeks. He turned the napkin over in his hand that had her number on it. He set it on his nightstand and ran a hand through his hair.

Get close to her, get her to tell you. He smiled at the thought. They were meant. There was no doubt about that. Amber, his father, and the rest of the pack would have to understand that.

“Daydreaming again?” A voice laughed from behind him. He spun around and saw his little sister sitting on the bed behind him.

“How did you find me?” He growled,.

“Well, when Amber showed up without you, dad sent me.” She frowned,

“I don’t agree with them Ryder. I don’t think you should have to marry Amber because she is the dominate female. She is a snob.” Ryder smiled.

“You should see this girl, Chrissy, she is amazing.” He smiled. “We were made for each other. No doubt about that.”

“Well, then you should know Amber and her goonies are going to go give her some trouble tonight. Scare her away.” Chrissy said sadly. Ryder growled and ran towards the window, the moon was out, and it was pitch black.

“I’ll be back.” He growled quickly shifting form shaking out of his clothes afterwards. He lept out the window and hit the ground running. He had followed Keri home, so he knew where she lived, but he just hoped he got there before Amber did.

His hopes were smashed when he got to her house and found it empty. He heard barking and he quickly ran towards it. He saw Jerry, one of Amber’s goonies, holding down Keri’s germen shepared. Amber and Kenny were circling a shaking Keri. She jumped back as Amber jumped at her heels snapping. Amber laughed and growled deeply.

*~*~*~*

Keri looked at the red wolf in front of her. She wanted to scream so bad, but she knew she couldn’t, that might make the wolves attack. They had just been circling her for what felt like eternity. She glanced at Camo, her dog, and whimpered when she saw the third wolf still holding him down. Why aren’t they killing us? The thought made her worried, her eyes went to the black wolf that was following the red one around her. It snarled and she tried to step back, but couldn’t. A new growl came from her right and she glanced towards it. Her heart sank as she saw a fourth wolf. It was huge! It had a foot that was the size of her hand. It’s fur was a dusted brown, it’s ears were darker brown and there was what looked like a mask on it’s face. It’s fur looked soft and fluffy. It started running towards her and she slammed her eyes shut waiting for the pain that was guaranteed to come. She heard a yelp and opened her eyes. The wolf had jumped on the red one and had it pinned to the ground. The red was whimpering as the big wolf growled at it.

The big wolf backed up and the red took off for the woods it’s tail tucked between it’s legs. The big one turned to the black whose hair was raised and it’s teeth exposed. The big jumped on it and tore into it’s back. She saw the black bite the big’s leg and blood gushed out. The big wolf didn’t seem to notice though. It managed to throw the smaller into a tree sending it running. It turned and growled at the one holding Camo down and it turned taking off. Keri ran to Camo looking for any scratches. He was fine, just scared. She looked at the big wolf who was looking at her holding it’s injured leg up. She looked at it’s eyes and gasped. They were the same color blue as Ryder’s. She rubbed her eyes and looked again. She had been dreaming. She slowly moved towards it to wrap it’s leg up and it growled backing up a little.

“It’s ok, you helped me, let me help you.” She said softly. It laid down and looked at her as she moved slowly towards it. Camo ran up behind her and looked the wolf over. He laid down and let a small noise rise from his throat. The big wolf let the same out of it’s and she guessed they had made some sort of agreement. She carefully touched the wolf’s leg and a growl came out of it’s throat. She tensed but didn’t let go. She watched it’s ears, hoping maybe you could tell what a wolf was going to do by it’s ears like a horse, though she doubted it.

The bite wasn’t that bad and she carefully wrapped it in pieces of her shirt that she had torn off. She genly stroked it’s fur surprised at how amazing it felt against her hand. It was so soft and silky. It finally sank in that she was petting a wolf and her hand tensed causing the wolf to look up at her worriedly.

“Sorry, but you must really trust humans to not only save me, but let me pet you too.” She smiled continuing to pet it. It seemed to like being pet so she didn’t stop. She yawned and started to stand up. The wolf growled and she plopped back down. “I need to get home.” She sighed trying to keep her eyes open. She was tired, having three wolves attack her had been really scary.