The Late Bloomer
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  • Reads 7,101
  • Votes 301
  • Parts 10
  • Time 59m
Ongoing, First published Apr 26, 2020
By now, I had accepted the fact that I might never change- that maybe I had no wolf. Maybe I had no mate. I might grow up a regular girl and I was okay with that.

Alright, I was WORKING on being okay with that.

Either way, I didn't want my family walking on eggshells around me. It wasn't their fault that I was broken.

. . .

Piper Rain Banks had nearly resigned herself to the fact that she might never shift into a wolf. After all, the average shifting age was eight years old.

She was seventeen.

But perhaps all she needed was something thrilling and new in her life- an event that would wake her wolf and goad the stubborn creature into action. Something like a handsome rogue on the pointy end of a pike. . .

Perhaps she was never broken after all. Maybe she was just. . .a late bloomer?
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