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knew already, but as a compliment to David, he repeated it all again.
    “Unbelievable!” David shouted and punched the wall with his fist . “How could this have happened? Isn't there supposed to be at least some kind of a rule that prevents Adam from doing whatever he wants to?
    “Unfortunately no,” I said quietly. “No one could have even dreamed that he would do something like that.”
    “Why not? Why was he the only one who cooked this up?” David asked, haunted.
    “That's exactly what he asked me today,” Clarissa said quietly.
    “What are we going to do now?” David wondered and answered before anyone else could. “I think we have no choice but to infiltrate the school. That's the only way we can be sure of Clarissa's safety.”
    “No. I know what I'm going to do,” said Derry, a red-haired shape shifter from Scotland. “I'm done with this mess and I'm going back to Edinburgh. I know I don't have a chance of getting Clarissa, so why waste any more time around here. Some of you still live in your own dreamlands, but the truth is, we're not a pack. We're here to compete for the same doe and I know when I've lost the game. I'll go. I'm sorry, but it's just the way things are.”
    Fabio and Marcel glanced at each other. They knew that they too didn't have a chance of winning this game. However, they felt strongly bonded to our pack and they thought it would be a shameful thing to do, to leave us now, when we needed all the help we could get. Otherwise, we wouldn't stand a chance against Adam. Derry was convinced, though, that at least a few of them would join him, but as no one moved or spoke, he stood up calmly.
    “I'm sorry, Sofia,” he said and hugged me tightly.
    “Mar sin leat Brathair.”
    “Mar sin leat, Sofia, mo caraid.”
    Derry glanced at the others quickly and then he was gone.
    “And so there were only nine left,” Marie mumbled from Tiamhaidh's arms.
    “Marie,” I said and looked at her firmly.
     
    For a moment that felt like an eternity, we just stared at each other. Derry's decision had been like a thunderbolt, but the truth was, he was right. We were not a pack. At least not a unanimous pack. The young males were here only to get Clarissa and at some point she had to decide. Then our pack would break down. Most of them felt they belonged strongly to my pack though, and they wouldn't think for one second of leaving us alone with Adam. As long as Clarissa hadn't made her decision, each one of them had a chance and she was worth fighting for.
    Finally Blake broke the silence. “I'll sign up for school today.”
    “Ditto,” the other males answered as a choir.
    “No. Just me. I mean, look at yourselves. You fit into high school as badly as Adam, but I actually look like a high school kid,” Blake straightened his glasses and smiled innocently. “I'll join another class, so Adam won't think of me as a threat. I can still sign up for the same courses as Clarissa, at least some of them, and I can stay close enough to her,” Blake continued boyishly.
    “It could work,” said David pensively.
    “Wait a minute!” Darel interrupted. “I think you forget, brathair, that it's not just to make sure Clarissa is safe but to have her to yourself. Give us one reason why we should agree with you being with her every day for several hours, without any of us? There's no good reason why we couldn't sign up, too. If Adam can do it, so can we.”
    “Do you actually think that Adam will leave Clarissa alone, as he said, if you morons glue yourselves to her every second?” snapped Blake, and everything boyish disapp eared from his face as if it had been wiped. “Don't you get it? She will be in dange r if you come to school,” he challenged the others with his look , his eyes gleaming dangerously. “Adam will hardly keep his promise, but I can bet my life that if he feels that you are a threat to him, he will seduce Clarissa with all he has and I'm sure you do not want that. Every one of us