First Shift (The Wolves of Rock Falls Book 1) by AJ Skelly

Author:AJ Skelly [Skelly, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Beta Hero, friends to lovers, shapeshifter, Young Adult, Baking, Discovery, high school, friendship, Wolf, shifter, Werewolf, forbidden love
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc
Published: 2021-03-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

Sam

Meg was definitely distracted. I hoped that was a good thing—like maybe she was thinking about me. I had no idea. Trying to figure out the workings of Meg’s female brain was more than I had the energy for today. I got my notebook out and tried to take notes. Meg was doodling more than usual, still jotting down things here and there with her pink pen—she color coded all her classes by ink color—but doodling little vines and hearts and scrolly loopy things. I nudged her knee under the table. She glanced up, and I winked at her. She rolled her eyes at me even as she grinned and turned back to her notes, vines momentarily forgotten.

Fifth period rolled around, and I walked with her to her next class on the way to mine. She didn’t object when I loosely grabbed her hand, so I went a step further and twined our fingers. She smiled up at me shyly. So far, the not-really-but-maybe-we-are-sort-of-dating thing was going well.

Noise pressed in all around us, and the smells from the cafeteria—lingering eggs from breakfast and could-use-a-few-more-minutes-in-the-oven casserole for lunch, body spray, body odor, pencil lead, and old textbooks—were stronger than normal.

My legs rooted to the ground as one scent suddenly stood out from all the rest. My body jerked to attention, and each of my senses homed in on that smell.

“Sam?” Meg asked, and then her head whipped around, too.

It was wolf.

The same wolf I’d smelled at the theater. I didn’t know this wolf. It made me uneasy. My hackles raised.

“I smell it, but it’s faint. There’s too much other stuff.” She tugged my sleeve as I glanced around, taking in all of the surroundings and other students milling around. I didn’t see anyone I didn’t know on sight, and the scent wasn’t completely fresh but not more than a few hours old.

Meg tugged my hand and traffic resumed where we’d been standing. We were outside her science classroom.

“Do you know them?”

“No. I don’t. And that’s what worries me. I don’t like it. I smelled the same one at the theater when I left to go get sodas, too.”

A tiny frown appeared between her eyebrows.

“It’s strange for one to be coming through like this and not announce themselves, right?”

“Yes. We make a point to let residents know if we’ll be in the area.” I put my hand to the small of her back again, ushering her toward the classroom.

“Keep your eyes open. Wait for me after class. I’ll walk you to lunch.” I couldn’t help that my eyes trained to her lips. “Be careful,” I said quietly instead.

“I will. You, too.” She squeezed my arm and went into science.

Another quick scan didn’t show me anything out of the ordinary. My senses were on high alert on the way to Humanities.

****

I was hyper-aware of everything but my classes for the rest of the afternoon. Lunch passed peaceably. We sat together at our normal table, ate bland rice and chicken casserole, and I scanned the room about once a minute.

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