"I spent ten years in Manhattan hiding what I was from every person I knew," Luke answers, looking away briefly. "Habits are sometimes hard to break." It isn't that he's embarrassed by what he is or that he's ashamed. He's long since accepted what has happened to him and the complications of such, but he's also never lived in a world where it's acceptable.

Even in Idris, the wolves had had to keep to themselves.

"But I would like that," he continues, looking over at Derek. "I might need it.