Iain would go up and collect Rex and give him a short walk. Because it was so hot, Iain would take Rex home with him and they would stay in the garden... together. When the class was over, Shilpa would text Iain, and he got the dog ready for her to collect. That way, no rules were broken. Until Friday.Iain was surprised not to have received a text, but everything was fine Rex was snoozing in the garden. Iain heard his doorbell ring, a very rare thing during the lockdown. He was delighted to see. The same growling filled her ears and out of the corner of one terrified eye, she saw the wolf ears, the teeth bobbing in the air, but to her amazement she saw in the shadows, two breasts nearly hidden beneath the fur. How could that be, but without her glasses she couldn’t be sure of anything. Then from behind the tree another beast appeared pressing its paw on her head grinding her face into the sharp pine needles. Kyra closed her eyes and screamed in pain and anger, ”Get the fuck off. I made Tomov Russian partially because of my breed, but largely because I knew that, while I had observed human behavior inside and around the library I grew up in, I hadn't given much thought to how I would behave were I to become human. As Tomov, I had the fallback of conveniently not understanding what people were saying.In those first few tumultuous days of passing among the students of NYU as one of them, I pretended I did not understand whenever someone started talking about sex.I knew. Nothing was ever said between us, even though we both knew we were listening to each other.I knew Emma had a new boyfriend called Gary and we’d been out together as a foursome a couple of times. I thought he was a bit old for her and a bit stuck up, but she seemed to like him and began spending more time at his place, certainly on the weekends.Then one-day Emma asked if Gary could stay over for the weekend because the heating had broken in his house and it was freezing. Ann and I were going.