Wolf Girl (Wolf Girl #1) - Leia Stone Page 0,73

off the face of this earth, killing the prince of the most powerful vampire coven in the country was not smart.

“At three a.m.!” I shouted.

She shrugged. “It’s day for them. Vampires, remember?”

Duh. I knew that. The vampires at Delphi had to take special pills to keep them awake in order to go to school, and then another set of pills to be able to sleep at night and adapt in the human world. Contrary to fantasy stories, they could go out in the sun, it just wasn’t natural for them. Their circadian rhythm was all off.

“Where are they holding him?” I moved for the door and she reached out to stop me.

“In the registration building, but you can’t go. The alpha is sending guards to keep an eye on you and I. They know we will try to interfere.”

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