My body was trembling with cold as I pushed my hands between my legs to keep them warm. The woman was silent beside me, her eyes fixed on the road ahead as the car rumbled through the thick forest trail that led away from the Alpha’s packhouse.
I didn’t know how long we had been driving. The woods outside looked endless, trees towering like ancient guards, their shadows shifting and merging with the fog that crept between them. Every bump of the road made me flinch, the chains still locked around my wrists clinking softly in the silence.
I didn’t know where we were heading but I didn’t bother asking. I was born in this pack but I didn’t even know the woman, I was going with.
The car came to a halt in front of an old, three-story house. The woman stepped out and motioned me to do the sa
