Between helping Johanna and the pack’s territory disputes, Girl’s been too stressed to worry about pleasantries. When things finally started to settle down, she thought it was time to make a call on the promise she’d made to Cole. Finding his alley wasn’t too hard, though she did take a wrong turn trying to remember the directions and had spent far too long talking to empty air a few streets over. Not that he would need to know that.

Still, even thinking she had the right address, Girl felt awkward trying to call him out in the empty alleyway. “Cole?” She asked the wall, glancing around the clutter of the area. “Are you still here? I said I’d come and here I am.”