Zara
I ran, breath burning in my chest with every breath. I didn't dare look back. Every guard in assigned to the Alpha house was after me. It sounded like every guard in the whole pack, but I knew better. Lucian would never pull guards off perimeter duty just to chase me.
I needed a plan. I needed someplace to hide. I couldn't run forever, and I didn't have much of a head start on Lucian. He'd chase me down himself.
I'd always felt isolated as the only pack member who couldn't shift to wolf. Still, I'd never really longed to be able to take my wolf's physical form as much as I did right at that moment. If I had four legs I could run much, much faster. As I was I knew I stood no real chance of escape.
I decided to try to hide. I jumped into a shallow creek, doubled back upstream, and
