Chapter 491

I ignored the gasp of my mother and the reddened face of my father. I didn't want to disrespect either of them, but they were treating me like I was a child, incapable of making my own choices. This was my life, and I got to choose what I did with it. I would forever be grateful to them for raising me since I was a pup, but now it's time that I branch out and become my own person. Everything I did was for them... the only reason I worked for Gavin in the first place was to pay off my father's debt. I do what I can for this family and if they can't see that, then that's their loss.

I didn't stick around to hear my father reprimanding me further. I left without a single word. I quickly got into my car and started to drive towards the villa. I needed to see Gavin. I needed to find out what was going on with Sammy. Why would she escape like that?

I didn't get far when I noticed a shadow lurking through the surrounding forest. It almost looked like a wolf. It wasn't unusual to see wolves on the prowl considering this was packland, but something about it caught my attention and I had a sudden urge to follow it.

Without much thought, I parked my car on the side of the road and quickly

stripped off my clothes, not wanting to ruin them as I shifted into my wolf form. It was easier to track while in wolf form. I picked up the wolf's familiar scent almost right away. There was recognition in the scent and my wolf's ears immediately perked. She grabbed my clothes off the ground with her teeth and got to work tracking the wolf.

She sniffed the ground and started off in the same direction. As we ran through the forest, everything around us became a blur. She was fast, much faster than normal wolves. I never really understood how my wolf was so fast, but it came in handy during times like this. In record time, we had the wolf in sight.

It was a large black wolf and seeing it made me realize how I knew it.

It was the same wolf that saved me back in the competition, when I was on the island. My heart thudded against my chest.

I knew back then that the wolf was female based on her aura alone, but also her scent had a feminine quality to it. I wondered what she could be doing here... and who she was.

My wolf stayed back several feet as she watched the black wolf's pace slowing. The black wolf lifted her head in the air and sniffed; for a moment, I worried she was able to detect us like we could detect her. But she didn't turn her head in our direction, much to my refief. My wolf was careful to stay hidden in the shadows, using the pushes as a shield.

Her eyes remained trained on the black wolf, watching her every move. She was no longer moving; she was standing in the middle of the forest, sniffing around a tree. I realized she had clothes in her mouth that she carefully placed on the ground beside her as she continued her quick prowl. After a few minutes, she walked back around the large tree, her head high in the air as she let out a howl, as if she was alerting someone that she was there. She stared up at the night sky and continued to howl for another

moment before she stopped.

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I could feel my wolf's confusion and then slight unease as she felt another presence approaching, though this presence was much further away, she knew it would take them no time to reach this location. A slight chill coursed through me, and I felt my wolf nearly recoiling in on herself. I had to fight her to keep our wolf form, which wasn't something that ever happened. I wasn't ready to shift back though, and my wolf was adamant about not wanting to remain in this form any longer. noveldrama