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the man would come looking for the woman.
     
    Let him come , he thought. He will die, and so will any other wolf that comes up against me.
     
    Patrick Wilkos took the syringe and pushed in the entire contents. He felt the effects almost instantly. His pulse picked up. His eyesight grew keener. His sense of smell sharpened. Strength coursed through his body. This was power! His muscles bulged out and he flexed. He walked out of the study on the second floor.
     
    Two things happened at once. He saw the woman, whose name he finally learned was Elissa, running down the stairs. He also ran right into Vance. The man’s eyes flared.
     
    Patrick just smiled. “Weiss.”
     
    Vance back up on the landing and looked at Patrick. The adrenaline that was running through him made him giddy with excitement.
     
    Time to put the woman’s blood to use once more.
     
    Elissa almost cried. Vance. He was coming up the stairs and she quickened her pace to reach him. A door opened and her captor came out. He looked up at her. Vance ran right into him.
    Her captor smiled evilly. Vance backed up. His eyes flashed.
     
    “Weiss.” He said quietly.
     
    “Vance.” She nearly screamed. She began to run the rest of the way. Her captor looked back at her, his face contorting.
     
    “Elissa, stay back.” Vance yelled. He threw his body in between her captor and herself, just as the man turned from man to something she could only describe as animal.
     
    He was at least seven feet tall. His face was half human with an elongated nose that looked like a snout. His hands were like claws with sharp nails and fur that ran up his arms and neck.
     
    What the fuck!
     
    She skidded to a halt and fell to the ground. Vance bent at the waist and she heard bones cracking. The man she thought she knew shifted the same as the man but he was taller and had more bulk to him. Elissa wanted to shut her eyes but couldn’t look away.
     
    The two animals circled each other. Her captor swung out with his claw like hand and caught Vance in the side of the face. Vance recovered quickly and let out a snarl as he went for the man-wolf's neck.
     
    The wolf that had been Vance sunk his teeth deep into the other's shoulder. The man grabbed Vance by the shoulders and flung him towards the stairs. Vance stopped himself just in time.
     
    The other wolf rolled his neck and advanced on Vance but Vance was ready for him. He shifted from whatever he was into a big grey wolf. Recognition immediately sparked in her eyes.
     
    This was the same wolf that had chased her attackers off that night. He ran for the man, going to the left when her captor would have swiped his nails across his side.
     
    Vance snapped at her captor's ankles and threw him off balance. The jaw tightened around the man's neck and he reached up to throw Vance off.
     
    He shifted into a sleek black wolf. But he was smaller and less fluid than Vance.
     
    They went at each other, teeth, snarls, and claws. Elissa lost track of which wolf was which. They moved too fast. Gray blurred with black and blood splashed the ground.
     
    The wolves went rolling down the stairs and Elissa found herself following. The black wolf landed on top of Vance and was biting on his neck, tugging back and forth with his teeth.
     
    She heard Vance whelp. She was sure the wolf would kill him.
     
    “Vance!”
     
    Somehow Vance got the better of the situation, backing the wolf into a corner. Vance bared his teeth and launched at the black wolf. He bit him and tore a chuck of his neck off.
     
    Her captor sunk to the ground. Vance shifted back to the animal human thing and put his hand around the wolf's neck. The cracking sound made Elissa sick to her stomach.
     
    The black wolf lay motionless on the floor. Blood pooled around him.
     
    She could hear howling all around her. The sounds were slowing. She would never understand what had happened here.
     
    Men turning into wolves. She never knew something like that was