CHAPTER 103

  Cindy nor Jasmine was by the bench when I arrived, so I just figured they were late. Nothing new to me. They had their own personal lives to attend to. I didn't want to sit idly there and act like a statue, so I walked along the border of the pack. Risky, I know, but I was bored beyond the known planets and had nothing better to do.

  I stood on the chalky soccer lines that separated the pack from the human world, gazing at the beautiful, miniature village that Lucien had created. The hairs on my neck rose slowly...

  "Beautiful, isn't it?"

  I spun around, spooked. Greg's irises popped from the impending darkness, prowling around me like a tiger stalks its prey. I calmed the irrational thrashing of my heart desperately, hoping he couldn't see the pumping of my shirt.