Anger surged through Lena like a wildfire, bright and consuming. She didn’t push it down this time she let it build. Let it swell. Something inside her stretched, expanded, pushed outward beneath her skin. A deep, shuddering growl tore from her throat, shaking the air around her.
“She’s ”
“Shifting,” Silas said, his voice thick with awe.
Lena felt the world tilt as her body dropped to all fours. The ground felt sharper under her paws paws. The realization hit her only for a flicker before instinct swept in to drown everything else.
Across the clearing, a massive wolf Keya’s wolf charged with brutal speed. Dirt kicked behind her, jaws snapping open in a flash of white teeth.
Lena didn’t retreat.
She braced. Waited. Trusted something that wasn’t thought of, wasn’t logic something ancie
