‘Come on Magnus, please play hide and seek with me,’ Nina begs me with her large, brown, doe-like eyes. I walk towards her with abrupt haste. She steps back until she feels the bluestone wall against her back. I tower over her with ease. My mother Astrid, the Luna of Shadow Crest, always reminds me that when I was born, I was double the size of a regular wolf baby and even now almost a foot taller and much broader than any other ten-year-old. She says I may even become the mightiest Alpha of all one day. Glaring down into Nina’s eyes, I huff, ‘I’m still mad at you for tricking me into putting salt on my cereal this morning instead of sugar.’ Nina’s face lights up with a smile. ‘The look on your face when you ate it though, was so worth it,’ she giggles. ‘Why do you alwa

