Three years ago, Lyle made a mistake that cost him his freedom, and almost his life. Now, sick to death of watching his father love the man that Lyle wanted, Lyle accepts an offer to leave Wolf, WY, behind and see what life in Washington, DC,. can do for him instead.<br><br>When Lyle comes across a seductive, attractive stranger with a fascinating yet terrifying view of humanity, he's more than intrigued. It doesn't take Lyle long to realize that Arius isn't just playing games, though, and when Lyle runs across a secret in Arius' lair he has no choice but to flee, even knowing his actions will enrage Arius.<br><br>On the run, with only a psychic's second sight and his own instinct to help him, Lyle has nowhere to go but home. The only question is, will they have him when he shows up.

Wolf, en Garde

Lyle wanted to follow, he really did. He’d love nothing better than the opportunity to spend more time talking to Arius if for no other reason than he’d never heard anyone preach a ‘weird-things-good, humankind-bad’ outlook before. He liked the idea that somebody understood how much he enjoyed what he’d become and that, regardless of what he’d been told about his ‘condition,’ to him it was special. It was cool. It was amazing that the thing he’d spent so many years hoping was going to happen actually hadhappened, and now that he had it, he couldn’t imagine living without it. Up until that very moment, Lyle had been convinced that he was the weird one out—they’d all told him so, hadn’t they? The counselors at the GDBCG, his doctor, his father. But maybe, just possibly, they were wrong. After all, perspective really was the only difference between teaching and brainwashing. Still…he had promised…


Chapter 21