It was at once both exhilarating and scary. “The curtains are open. May I please go close them?” she asked into the phone. “No just sit there an... listen to me.” Carla sat silently, breathing shallowly into the phone. “Good girl,” Doris said. “Now, you will play with yourself, but you are not to come. I control your pleasures and especially, I control your orgasms. When we get off the phone, you will not close the curtains. You will go into the kitchen, and you will set the timer for fifteen. HMMMM it was your first change your wolf was hungry so it went after the weakest prey in sight… does that make me a killer… no not in the least dear but I might have a solution you see I have been asked by a friend of mine and my pack’s alpha to open up a safe haven for our kind… I stole from you… consider it as a way you could make it up to me for stealing and in return you work with me you get free room and board and if you work hard I will help you out getting you better clothing… are you. ‘You took longer to wake than I thought you would. So we don’t have any time left. The baby girl you just saw will be your charge. She will not be able to see you, except for in her dreams and times of extreme stress. You’ll watch over her and give her guidance. Whether you choose a path of good and kindness for her or a path of evil and cruelty, is up to you.’ Around him, the endless expanse of white began to shift, like a curtain being lifted to reveal the hospital room that he’d just seen.. The steady beeping of the heart monitor, was pounding in Gabe’s head as he woke up. He started to open his eyes and there was a blinding light so he squeezed them shut. Gabe’s entire body tingled like he had tongued a live battery, but much, much stronger. The shock of what was happening spiked his heart rate, the monitor going crazy, making his head hurt more. Gabe tried to slow his heart rate with deep calming breaths like he had learned to battle his anxiety. Breathing thru his nose he could.