DANTE’S POV
War never announces itself politely, with Selene not being here I was getting weaker again. I guess I should have seen this coming and I should have known that Steven and everyone else who was praying for my downfall would be waiting for my downfall. I should have been expecting this ambush and yet it all came so unexpected.
It came like a snapped nerve, a sudden violent unmistakable attack. I felt it before the horns sounded. A pressure in my chest, sharp and wrong, like the world drawing a blade across my ribs. I was already on my feet when the first howl cut through the air, followed by another, then a dozen more ragged, mismatched voices that did not belong to my pack.
Rogues.
And beneath that chaos, threaded too neatly to be coincidence, the familiar, disciplined forma
