Kora’s POV
The howls rolled through the valley like thunder, echoing off the cliffs and splitting the still night open. Everyone moved at once — weapons unsheathed, orders barked, the sharp ring of steel filling the air.
Edward’s voice cut through the noise. “Circle formation! Keep the fires low, and don’t move unless I say!”
I stood frozen for half a second, staring into the dark line of the forest below us. The trees were a solid wall of black, but I could feel them — shapes moving between the trunks, fast, heavy, purposeful. The bond inside me thrummed, the heat building low and steady in my chest.
Mara came up beside me, bow drawn. “What are they?”
“Hunters,” Edward said grimly. “His.”
Aaron’s creatures.
A cold weight settled in my stomach.
The fire in me pulsed harder, reactin
