Chapter 16

Tea's POV

I screamed and skidded backward, toward the stairs.

Through the glass door, I watched as a human body came running toward us, from off to the side of the wolf. It was a guy his hands in the air, his body completely naked.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I recognized Elliot Smiley.

"It's Ford," he yelled through the door. "The wolf is Ford." He pointed over his shoulder. "We shift at night a lot. Lock your doors and Jesse will calm down!"

I let out a shaky breath and nodded.

Ford had warned me to lock the doors at night... I guess that was why. I couldn't remember unlocking most of them, but knew one or two were open.

I checked the back door as Elliot ran off into the darkness again. That one was already locked.

Making my way around the townhouse, I locked every damn door. When the lock clicked on the garage door, the last one, and the only one that hadn’t already been locked, Jesse relaxed instantly.

How the hell had h