the golden eyed wolf

Leonor

"Back again Lenny?"

Asked old Sam, the gym owner as I sat wrapping my hands ready to train. I like Sam, he's old school. He makes no difference between the guys and me when it comes to training and sparring.

At my small five foot two inches most of the males treat me like I will break. That is until they know me, I keep the fact I have my wolf and her added strength to myself. Being 17 most of them still assume I have not yet shifted.

I ran away from my pack two years ago, after shifting at 15 years old. I had taken many years of physical and mental abuse at the hands of my father.

My mother died when I was five, after that dad had turned on me. He started to drink just after mum passed, that's when my life took a turn for the worse.

Most wolves shift at 18 years old, the first full moon after their 18th birthday. Only Alphas shift at fifteen. Jewel, my wolf, arrived in time to save me after the last beating my father had given me. 

If it wasn't for her I would have died, she came to help heal me. For the first time since my mum died I didn't feel alone. It was then I made the decision to run away, that's how I came to be in Neutral City. 

Neutral City is the city that borders all the packs. It's a place where all the different beings can live without having to be in a pack or coven or any other species, including humans . 

I had just finished my warm up, when I noticed Sam talking to a woman, she looked familiar. She looked upset, worn out like she had not eaten or slept. I made my way over after she had left. Sam was putting something on the notice board.

"Hey what's that?"I asked as I came up to stand at his side.

"Another missing person Lenny, that's three in the past two months" Sam replies. 

Another wolf, another teenager. Looking at the missing person poster I realised why the woman looked familiar. She was from my pack, the silver moon pack to the west of the city. The face of the boy looking at me from the poster was a boy a year younger than I. 

"Fuck another one, all wolfs all male" I say while staring at the smiling picture of the sixteen year old boy on the poster. 

"You need to be careful girl, and I know you can take care of yourself, but I have a bad feeling about this" Sam says as he takes a long drag on his cigarette.

-------------------------------------------

I work in a littlel coffee shop five minutes from the gym. I share a small two bedroom flat with Lillith, she's a witch and although she lives in Neutral city her family are still part of the coven in the north.

Our  flat is above the coffee shop,  which makes my life easier. Lilith works in the karaoke bar at the other end of the city.

We met by chance, I was out letting Jewel have a run when I heard a commotion. It was quite late in a secluded part of the city so I went to check it out. That's when I saw her, she had two men levitating, while she chanted something in Latin.

She sensed me and burst into laughter. She said it was the first time she had seen a wolf with its jaw on the floor.  After she had told me that they had tried to mug her.