“Come with you?” Jayden frowns.
“You can’t stay here alone. People will come eventually, people who don’t understand what you are,” Elijah explains.
“But you don’t know me. Why would you take me? Why are you even here?” Jayden scowls. It seems he’s shaken off some of his shock.
“Don’t be afraid, but we’re hunters,” Elijah says, and Jayden’s dark green eyes widen. “We heard about your tribe, how they didn’t hunt people, and we wanted to see that for ourselves. We heard other packs were coming after yours. We came to warn your pack, but we were too late, and I’m sorry for that.”
One child might not be able to change things, but it’s a start, a sign that things don’t have to be as they always were. Werewolves can change.
“I-I don’t know if I should trust you,” Jayden says, showing himself to be a smart kid. Joshua wouldn’t trust them either if positions were reversed.