Chapters 30 through 37 Summary

In chapter thirty, Cole arrives at the house and showers, trying to wash the blood and the scent of the blood away. Cole begins to think through the situation. He comes to the conclusion that the cold may not be the cause of the shift, but merely a catalyst for the shift. Cole reads Beck's day planner. He discovers an entry in which Beck talks about a wolf who stopped shifting some fourteen years earlier and who had died. Beck says there was an odor coming from the wolf. He also questions why one of the wolves shifted in the middle of a hot day. Cole remembers telling his girlfriend Angie that he might kill himself. She didn't respond and he'd questioned her reaction. She says that only Cole can talk himself into or out of that, so there's no need...