The Wolfs Maine - By Jinni James Page 0,37

about Nicholas and how he killed my aunt and now is after them all to get back at me. Jaci was the first to speak as usual.

"Are you kidding me? This is nuts! Are you sure you haven't hit your head one time too many on that headboard?" I had to laugh, leave it to Jaci to bring it back there. Lena however wasn't speaking. She hadn't said one word.

"Lena, are you alright? You don't have to be scared, we are safe here." Lena looked up at us with tears in her eyes.

"I thought I was the only one." Jaci and I looked at each other.

"What do you mean the only one?" Lena wiped the tears from her eyes.

"I thought I was the only shape shifter. I never realized there were more out there. I thought I was weird. I had no idea there were others. I mean that's just not something you start a conversation about you know? And now for my best friend to be one as well, it's wonderful." Now I had tears in my eyes as well.

"No Lena, you are not alone. You've never been alone." She just broke down in my arms. It was like a revelation for her. I could not imagine going through all of this alone. I thank God I had John and Michael with me. Jaci looked like she was about to come unglued.

"No fucking way! How did we not know this?"

"I just learned how to control it. I changed when I was a teenager, my parents didn't even know. I thought I was strange. My parents just thought I was sick for a few days and for some reason controlling it came pretty easy to me." I couldn't believe it. My best friend had been a shape shifter all this time and we never knew. At that moment John walked back in.

"Welcome to the pack Lena. Now if you girls are finished catching up we need to go downstairs and talk about Nicholas if you don't mind." I don't know why I kept forgetting about Nicholas. I was just so happy being surrounded by everyone I love that I forget my ass of an ex-boyfriend is out for blood. We follow John downstairs to where Michael is sitting. We all take a seat on the couch and listened as John explained.

"Michael has been trying to hunt Nicholas down with no real success. He will get a lead on him in one place and then thirty minutes later he'll be somewhere else. He rarely sits at home. This is going to take more than just one man. I've called in a few of our friends to help us track him down. We are beginning to have suspensions that Nicholas may be a vampire." Jaci just about jumped out of her skin.

"I knew it! I knew there was something up with that bastard!" It didn't make sense to me.

"John, wouldn't I have known if Nicholas was a vampire? I mean come on we were together for years." I said questionably.

"Ava Hun, you didn't know any of us existed so why would you have thought anything about Nicholas? Even if he was acting weird, you probably chalked it up to him being tired or just strange. I bet if you thought about it you might realize there were a few things that were weird that can be explained now, if he truly is a vampire. If he is then he is much more powerful than we first thought. This is why we need to act on this now. Michael and I will go out with a few more people and try to find him, you girls can stay here and our friend Andrew will stay with you." That's when I jumped off the couch.

"The hell you say we're staying here. There's no fucking way we're staying here while you go hunt down Nicholas. I have changed, I can help now." John jumped up as well and walked me over to the bar where we could talk alone.

"Ava you just changed. You don't even know how to turn willingly yet or how to control it. Besides, if anything were to happen to you I would die. Now that I finally have you I can't imagine life without you." I was defeated. There was no way he was going to let me go. It was probably safer this way anyway. Although the thought of him battling Nicholas again tore me apart, I mean look at