Everything simmered inside me as we rode over bumpy terrain. She drove with confidence, like there was no question how to get where we were going. There was something different about her, I realized. She seemed more confident, sure of herself. Did that have to do with being back around her people? Her coven?

A rush of warmth and certainty coursed through me when I asked myself that question. My wolf was answering with her innate wisdom.

All it did was make me feel miserable, ...