Wolf Girl (Wolf Girl, #1)(59)

I chewed my lip. “Well, why are you armed to the teeth if we can’t help?”

She paced my carpet. “I dunno. In case they attack.”

I froze, a thought coming to me: “The alpha is sending guards to watch over us?”

She nodded. “My mother said to behave.”

“How much time do we have before they get here?”

My wolf stirred under my skin, ready to protect Sawyer.

“Seconds. Maybe a minute. Why?”

I swallowed hard, hoping this didn’t hurt our friendship in the future. “Look, I’m sorry I never told you, but … I’m a split shifter and my wolf is about to walk out of my body and separate from me. Don’t freak out.”

Her face screwed up like she’d sucked a lemon. “What?”

Then it happened. My wolf appeared before me, a white mist crawling off my body. Sage stumbled backward in shock.

“What the fuck!” She looked at my wolf wide-eyed as she materialized into a solid form.

“It’s okay. It’s my wolf. We can separate,” I told her, hands out before me in an effort to calm her.

“This isn’t happening.” Sage closed her eyes and then opened them, shaking her head.

There was a knock at the door and my wolf tensed.

“Coming. I’m getting dressed!” I shouted, and ran for the living room window. Sage stood there in shock as I opened the window and let my wolf slink out into the dark night. “Protect Sawyer,” I told her, and she nodded. We were one, but we were also two people. It was hard to explain, but one thing we agreed on was that we loved Sawyer, and he should be protected no matter what.

I shut the window and Sage was still frozen beside me. “How far apart can you go? How is this possible?”

“Tell you later. Promise.” I pulled her from the window so it wouldn’t look suspicious and then went to open the door.

Two giant guards I didn’t recognize pushed their way into my apartment, silver stakes at their side. “There’s an emergency on campus, Miss Calloway,” the one with a shaved head said. “We need to make sure you’re safe.” He slipped into my room and checked the bathroom and closet. Seemingly checking for vampires.

“I’m keeping her safe,” Sage growled, gripping the sword in her hands.

I zoned out of what they were saying and concentrated on my wolf. She was running in the shadows, through the quad and toward the admin building where I’d gone the first day. The campus was crawling with security, but my wolf was agile and quiet; she moved behind bushes and through shadows. Sage spoke with the security guards while I walked toward my bedroom.

“I’m just going to lie down. It’s late and I’m tired.” My voice trailed off as I kept my attention with my wolf.

“Leave the door open,” one of the guards said.

“I’m gonna lie down too.” Sage fake yawned. “So tired.”

She followed me into my bedroom.

I sat on the bed and lay on the pillow, keeping my sight with my wolf, who had just reached the closed doors of the admin building. The lights were on inside, so there must be people in there. There were two guards there; my wolf stood in the bushes just to the right of them. Damn. I was kind of hoping for a door left open like in the movies.

No such luck.

“They said murder charges,” one of the guards said and I grew still.

“That’s kind of badass,” the other said. “The vampires have been messing with us for too long. Sawyer will be a good alpha. He won’t take their shit like his father.”

The first guard scoffed. “You can’t be an alpha from Magic City Jail, bro.”

“Whatever.”

Magic City Jail?

Shit. I knew there was a city for each race, and as a whole they were all a part of Magic City but … I didn’t know there was a jail.

Backtracking, I slipped along the side of the building, in the dark, trying not to crunch on leaves or make any noise to alert the guards.

Sage pulled me from my wolf’s reality. “Can you like … feel her still, or talk to her?”

I nodded. “She’s at the building, looking for Sawyer.”

“Holy shit,” Sage breathed. “Tell me what happens.”

I nodded again and focused back on my wolf.

What was she doing? She had gotten really close to one of the dark tinted windows, so close her nose was fogging it. I felt a tug at my navel like she was pulling something from me. Before I could try to figure it out, she went all translucent like she did before she jumped back in my body and … walked through the glass door, coming out on the other side in an empty conference room.

“Holy shit,” I breathed.

“What’s wrong?” Sage gripped my hand, but I kept my eyes closed, because it was the only way I knew how to concentrate.

“Nothing. I mean … my wolf just walked through a wall but … nothing.”

“That’s not normal,” Sage whispered, and I didn’t really have anything to say to that, because she was right. It wasn’t.

My wolf solidified and then peered out into the hallway. Immediately voices carried to her. She slinked down the hallway to get closer to them.

“We have security footage showing two wolves, gray and black, crossing the south side of our border two days ago,” a male voice said as my wolf listened on.