The earth shifted as the soil crumbled from below us with the once clear sky growing cloudy and distant, a whirlwind of dust and debris picked up from the surrounding area and withered within the air and coursed from around our huddled bodies. Nausea overwhelmed me as a sharp pain spread from my abdomen and up my spine where it resided behind my eyes and burned as my irises illuminated a hypnotizing earthly blue. This doesn’t feel right! I thought as a desperate scream erupted from my lungs. “Alaïa!” Orion shouted as he shifted his attention from the approaching Alpha and onto me. “Get your filthy hands off her!” Azrael shouted. No! I wanted to scream as I fell to the ground. Azrael shifted into his human form the moment the beta shifted his attention and closed the distance that sepa

