I jumped backward with yet another squeak.
At this point, he was absolutely considering eating me. I sounded like a freaking mouse.
“Nope!” I yelled to Abby.
My phone started ringing.
When I realized she was the one calling me, I lifted it to my ear with a shaky hand and tried to sound calm. “Hey.”
“What happened?”
“Um, I brought Jade a cake.” I clutched the dome a little closer to my chest. “The guy who answered wasn’t her, uh, boyfriend? He was pretty unhappy to see me. His eyes went red and he shifted into a wolf. I fell off the porch, and Jade’s cake was ruined. Then he kind of abducted me.”
“He called youmate?”
“I think so. He could’ve called me Kate, though.”
There was a beat of silence. “Why would he call you Kate, Emmy?”
“I’m not sure. Maybe I look like an ex or something?”
The wolf snarled at me.
I winced. “Yeah, it has to be Kate. His ex seems like a sensitive subject. The wolf definitely wants to eat me for trespassing. And not in the fun way.”
The wolf snarled again.
Another beat of silence passed.
“Has he tried to bite you?” Abby finally asked.
“Kind of?”
Abby let out a harsh breath. “Alright, Em. Here’s the deal. Werewolves are real. The first time the guy looks his mate in the eyes, he shifts and gets trapped in his wolf form until he bites his mate.”
I blinked. “Okay.”
“Okay?”
“I mean, it was pretty obvious that werewolves were real when you showed up with a big-ass dog named Nico one day, and a big-ass dude named Nico the next.”
There was another pause before she said, “That’s fair.”
“I didn’t know about the mate thing, though. We weren’t sure how that worked, or if werewolf books were accurate.”
“We, meaning…”
“Me and Zoe.”
“Well, the books are right about some things.”
“Apparently.”
“So, he’ll shift back after he bites you,” Abby said. “But when he bites you, you’re going to turn into a werewolf too. It’ll hurt like a bitch.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah.”
