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    “Be careful, Christine,” Sara said.
    “Hey,” I told her. “I’m your big sister. I’ll take care of this.”
    Before I could hear her response, I shut the door behind me.
    It was just me and them now.

Chapter 7
     
    Now that I was alone, I needed to act quickly.
    “It had to be wolves,” I muttered under my breath.
    I quickly stripped off my dress, bra, and panties and stowed them down at the bottom of the stairs, right next to the door. It wouldn’t do to rip one of the four outfits I had here. I was wearing my favorite dress after all. Still, I wasn’t a nudist, so being naked made me feel exposed.
    I closed my eyes and called to my inner beast.
    It had been forever since I transformed. Luckily, my cycles weren’t dictated by the full moon like werewolves were, so I hadn’t had to do it in a very long time.
    Here’s to hoping that I wasn’t rusty. I was frankly dreading the sensation, like I always did.
    I felt the fur start sprouting down my spine and then spreading across my back. I fell to my hands and knees as the transformation changed the physiology of my feet. Bones rearranged and shifted. I felt my skin and tendons moving and stretching to accommodate this new form. My mouth pulled forward and widened as whiskers poked their way through my upper lip. My ears shifted to the top of my head. The shape of my eyes changed, and how I saw the world changed too.
    I became a mountain lion.
    When I said that I’d do anything to repair my relationship with Shane, I meant it. The actual way in which he brought up to me that he had become a mountain lion shifter is fuzzy—something about becoming friends with the guys at the bar and how they showed him a whole new world—but he had issued an ultimatum that I join him in this crazy, messed-up society of werecats or he’d leave me. He’d been the one who transformed me. It was a decision I’ve regretted every day since.
    I closed my eyes in mourning for my lost humanity.
    No time to think on the past; I had werewolves to kick out.
    With liquid, stealthy steps, I moved up the stairs, ready to spring forward at any moment if there was so much as a creak that sounded out of place.
    I was a big cat. I stood at about waist high and I weighed about the same as when human, which, when you’re talking about an animal, is pretty frightening. Still though, I wasn’t sure how I’d compare with grey wolves. At least I had the element of surprise working for me. They had no idea what I was. Hopefully my unfamiliar scent would throw them off. But now that I had theirs, they had another thing coming to them.
    I reached the ground floor, my keen cat-ears picking up any hint of movement. They were still in the middle of the great room, scraping their claws against the floor, as if to terrorize my friends below. It had the appropriate effect, because I’d felt that same fear downstairs.
    Now, though, I was ready to teach them a lesson.
    Three…two…one…
    Like a tensed up coil, I sprang into action, catching the closest wolf by surprise. I didn’t hesitate; I went for the throat, although I didn’t want to kill him. He screeched inhumanly as my weight took him down, crashing into a wall.
    I had about another heartbeat before the other werewolves realized that they had a werecat on their hands, so I tackled another one, raking my claws across his chest. Blood spurted from the wound, only feeding my natural instincts to keep fighting.
    The second werewolf went down just as easily as the first. His head connected with the edge of the wooden coffee table, and it knocked him senseless. I knew that Andrea wouldn’t be happy with the dent I made in the wall and the damage to her furniture, but I bet she’d be happier than the alternative.
    From my right side, I was bodily thrown, hitting above the fireplace. The stonework dug into my back and scratched me painfully as I fell to the floor in a heap.
    In any other ordinary situation, I would have just let the pain