The burning, bone breaking shift came smoothly with my anger and fear, leaving me on four giant paws and panting at the floor. It felt so good to be in such a large form as it felt like the rage was disbursed a bit better and not so concentrated inside my head.
"What are you doing in your house, boss?" Seth asked in my head. I saw through his eyes as he patrolled the northern border of the rez while Quil patrolled the southwestern border. Their thoughts let me know that there weren't any new stinging sweet stench of the red headed leech and focusing on something other than what I'd just learned had me calming down slightly.
"Sam...Here."
I looked up and got my head back to inside my house instead of out in the woods with my pack brothers. Bella is standing by the open doorway, holding the screen door open as she stands on the porch. Her complexion is less ashen than it had been moments before and I'm guessing the shock of watching me phase in the house was enough to bring her out of her rising hysteria. Choosing my steps carefully, so that my wolf claws didn't scuff or mark up the pristine pine boards on the floor that I'd so meticulously sanded and stained myself, I eased out of the house. Thankfully the neighbors that I had were separated by dense forestry so I didn't need to worry about getting caught squeezing my tall and wide frame out of the thirty six inch doorway. As I passed by Bella, I almost purred at the sensation of her thin fingers raking through my fur. I heard her follow me off the porch and around the side of the house where the forest was thickest. It was the only thing separating my house from Second Beach.
I pawed at the ground as I watched Bella watch me. Opening my thoughts to the other two on patrol, their gasps were my own as they heard and saw what Bella told me about the leech.
"What the fuck are we going to do now?" Quil ranted in my head. "We've got to get rid of her. We can't lose Bella."
"Not just Bella but anyone. Everyone is in danger because she's after one of us." Seth pointed out calmly. He had thought of Bella as one of ours since before I even set eyes on the girl. Because she had been friends with Jake and then Paul after Cullen left, Seth had been hanging around her since before he phased.