Vic There was someone in his forest. He’d smelt the other predator a few days ago, and had relentlessly tracked them ever since, trying to work out what they were doing in his territory. But so far, he’d come up with nothing. And whatever it was, it seemed to do a decent job of hiding. Which is what had convinced Vic that it was another shifter he was dealing with and not another animal. He was the panther alpha, even if he hadn’t done anything about that since his parents had died. He assumed that his brother, Kem, had been keeping things going in his absence. That was just the kind of person Kem was. Vic felt a slight pang of guilt about abandoning his younger brother, but he pushed it to the side. He wasn’t in any fit state to be an alpha right now, and guilt wasn’t going to change th

