Page 65 of Wolf Unseen

While I was busy yawning, Kasia messaged me in the group chat to say I owed them an apology for leaving the fight night so abruptly. Ugh. Now I felt bad.

Me: I’m sorry, something came up.

Kasia: A dick?

Bree: Several dicks?

Raquel: We need photos. For research. *wink emoji*

Me: No dicks!

That was a lie. I’d definitely felt Tobias’s dick when we kissed.

Me: Will explain when I see you.

I’d decided that, to move my investigation forward, I needed to come clean to the felines. They’d taken me under their wing, and I hated lying to them. I wasn’t a liar by nature, so hiding my true gender around them felt all kinds of wrong.

Especially when these females were so kind and generous.

Kasia: Meet us for coffee at the Witch’s Brew in Trinity Falls on Saturday.

I hadn’t been back to Trinity Falls since visiting the bakery where Lorna had lived and worked. The coffee and baked goods at The Buxom Bagels had been to die for, but I looked forward to sampling the coffee at the Witch’s Brew this time around.

Me: 11 am?

Bree: *heart emoji*

That gave me five days to psych myself up for the big reveal.

The week dragged. By the time Saturday arrived, I was more than ready to get off campus. I threw on a jacket over a shirt and jeans to head for my coffee shop date with the pussy squad. The bus left for town in thirty minutes, and I didn’t want to be late. After checking my reflection in the mirror one last time, I shoved the pendant Tamara had given me into my pocket.

It only worked when looped around my neck, so I planned to broach the topic of my gender first and then do a big reveal. Hopefully none of my cat friends had a heart attack or scratched my eyes out for being a liar.

A big part of me worried I was making a terrible mistake. Felix agreed with that assessment. He thought telling the felines was a stupid idea. But then, he wasn’t a fan of feline shifters after one cheated on him.

I picked up my phone and trotted down to the parking lot to wait for the bus. A few other students stood around gossiping, but they all ignored me. Yeah, I was still the most unpopular student at Moonfall Academy.

Chad, a second-year wolf shifter, showed up a few minutes after me with his bear shifter friend. He’d shit-talked me before, and true to form, it took less than five seconds before he started spewing more bullshit at me.

“What do you call a wolf with no wolf?” he asked his ugly friend.

The bear shifter scratched his hairy belly and grunted. “Dunno?”

“A hybrid bitch!” the wolf cackled loudly while I rolled my eyes.

“What do you call a wolf with no brain?” I said in a loud voice as I swiped through Tobias’s feed on ShifterTok. “Chad!”

Two feline shifters made the mistake of laughing at my feeble joke, which prompted a nasty growl from Chad the Chump.

Thankfully, the bus rumbled into view, and Chad had the good sense not to start trouble. I waited until he’d boarded the bus ahead of me and then followed, grabbing a seat near the front. The burly bus driver didn’t seem the type to take shit from students, which helped me relax.

We left the campus behind as I admired Tobias’s shirtless thirst traps on ShifterTok. Holy stars, the wolf had abs to die for. In the video he’d uploaded this morning, he stood outside, sweaty and smiling at the camera before dripping water down his chest. The camera zoomed in on a water droplet as it slid down his abs and out of frame.

If only I was that water droplet.

Unfortunately, two million of his followers had expressed much the same sentiment. I silently seethed as I read a few of the comments on the video.

Wolfho69: I wanna lick your abs *fire emoji*