Victoria POV
I had just sunk into a deep, dreamless sleep when I was startled awake by a series of howls. My head still felt a bit muddled from want of sleep, but I instinctively shifted into my wolf form and answered with a warning howl. I thought we dealt with all the wolves? What is going on?
I shook out my fur and communicated with an alert Sheila.
I sense a lot of pressure building. There's a lot of them, aren't there?
Yeah, she answered grimly. And it's daytime. They must have laid in wait until sunrise. The hunter must have told them he was a vampire... her mind wandered to Desmonte, and a fierce desire to kill filled our collective mind. We had only just now gotten our mate. Now our mate was incapacitated from the sunshine. It was up to me. It was up to Sheila. We couldn't let
