Ava took a sip of her drink, trying and failing not to feel uncomfortable as Lyle spoke to the man on his other side about some assignment they had coming up. She wasn’t usually the type to feel intimidated in social settings, but she felt a bit out of place surrounded by Lyle’s human college buddies and their human significant others.
She’d never been so aware of the werewolf waiting to be set free inside of her or the different world she was a part of―the one that Lyle would never be aware of.
“So, Ava, what are you studying?” the man across from her, Neil, asked. He’d made a good effort to talk to her when she had arrived, but he’d been drawn into a conversation with the blonde bombshell next to him for the last few minutes.
Apparently done with his conversation, Lyle draped his a
