didn’t say anything. But Mr. Perez, who owns a bodega down there, said he’d been threatened by some pretty big guys. He was pretty freaked out. Said one the guys growled at him ‘just like a wolf’ when he said he wasn’t interested in selling out and moving.”

She made air quotes when she said it.

A chill went down my spine and I flashed back to what Runner had said. … another pack leader in New York told me about some guy who teamed up with a werewolf to infect people and make his own bully gang.

Okay, I’m not gonna say normal people can’t “growl like a wolf.” Or that just because the shopkeeper was scared by a big guy who sounded like a wolf, we should automatically assume they were werewolves, but it sure opened the p...

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