The air near the lake exhaled a familiar scent.
Still I stayed low, heart pounding against my ribs from the encounter with Menelik. His heat still hovered at my jaw, a smoldering ember in the freezing night air that refused to die out pulsing with a strange, magnetic frequency I couldn't explain.
But as the sound of measured, heavy footsteps crunched through the underbrush, that warmth turned to ice.
I didn’t need to see him to know the gait.
Cedar and old leather.
The scent of a man who’d spent decades carrying the burden of our pack on his shoulders.
From the darkened shadows, he appeared, tall, broad-shouldered, moving with that slow grace only a seasoned Beta could muster.
My father.
The Beta of Eclipse Star. His presence was familiar, yet tonight, it carried a different f
