bsession" with both soccer and baseball-not coincidentally, the two sports in the Etzgadol City League. He'd never bothered with other sp

y had seemed confused by the gesture. He'd just taken the paper out of the wolf's mouth and stuffed

d through the brochure, looked into Zev's amber eyes, and ask

ev's wolf to the ground. "Okay, I got the message, Pup

human was much larger than other children his age and his wolf was the size of a full grown dog. He'd grow bigger in time, but even at his current

snuck over to the woods at the edge of his yard and brough

o curious about what he was doing. But they had fun together, with Jonah kicking and Zev blocking the ball with his head and tackling the boy with nonregulation moves that always caused giggles and rewarded hi

were really just warm-ups for the main event: a shifter versus shifter playoff. But it was different against this human team. The Storm had beaten every other human team all season long and had come close to defea

r's location, and he always found a way to place his body in the perfect position to block goals. Jonah was such a skilled player, in fact, that the only t

guys. It's time to get s

insult the humans, but with Jonah on the receiving end of the taunt, Zev's hackles were truly up. The other shifter boys w

his left and deflect the shot. The whistle blew and Brian stomped off the field. The rest of Zev's team ran over to the sidelines, happy with their victory, even if the score was tighter than they wo

emember, so it seemed as normal to Zev as running and eating. But now that he was seven years old, he was starting to realize that his draw to the boy was

onah. What's

if pulled by a magnetic force, Zev stepped toward the other boy. Jonah flipped his white-blond hair of

m Z

owing Jonah to appraise him. His own instincts caused him to want to lean forward and smell the boy, circle around him in greeting, and maybe even lick him. But even at his young age, Zev

friend. R

ed anywhere had ev

" Zev nodde

e brown-haired boy's han

nes. In a few years, they'd be too old to touch this way. But for now, Zev noticed the humans didn't think there was anything unusual about two little boys