Lila & Dominic
Lila
Lila froze.
“Are you a werewolf?” the man asked. “Where are your parents?”
She didn’t answer, even though she knew the truth. Lila was a werewolf—she could feel the creature inside of her sometimes, like another kid’s voice in the back of her head.
Sometimes, it would speak to her when she was trying to sleep and it wouldn’t stop, even when she jammed her pillow over her head and sang nursery rhymes to drown it out.
Lila didn’t want to seem like a werewolf, so she always tried to pretend she wasn’t. She would ignore the voice until it went away. She feared that if she seemed too much like a werewolf, she would be taken from her mom.
The voice never went away. Not completely. In fact, it only seemed to get stronger every day.
That voice was
