“So the bottom line is, we need two more people?” Greg rubs his hand over his scruffy cheek and nods. “I think we can do that. There’s that big social event thing tonight. I bet we can find at least two people who might want to join the pack.”

“I don’t want just anyone,” I tell him. “I need them to be people who get along with the rest of us. I don’t want to start off a pack with complete strangers. We need to be a single unit.”

Freddy gives me ...