Chapter TWELVE-DANTE

I left to check the periphery of the woods around my cabin before starting my shift at the barn.

Emmet hadn’t mentioned any more signs of the strange Bear Shifter he’d scented a few days ago, but it still lingered around the spot where he first picked it up.

The nearest established Bear Shifter Clan was hours away in South Jersey, but they were mostly Black Bears. This was a Grizzly.

My beast chuffed angrily at the thought of another encroaching on our territory. I took off my clothes and slipped into my fur, releasing my animal so he could do what he did.

Basically, he fucked shit up.

My Grizzly tore at the trees around the frozen patch of earth where the other Shifter had dared piss. And yeah, I fucking marked the area, too, erasing the scent of other.

Afterwards, I spent some time searching, but I came up empty.

Whoever had been wandering in these woods, it looked like they’d never come back.