KADE My heart felt like it was being ripped out of my chest with rusty pliers. Every beat was agony. Every breath felt like swallowing glass. I wanted to turn around, run back to that house, fall on my f*****g knees and beg her to listen. To let me explain why I left. Why I had to leave. 'Go back! Mate needs us! PUP needs us!' "Shut up," I growled at my wolf. "Just shut the f**k up." But he wouldn't. He kept howling, kept clawing at my insides like he was trying to tear through my ribcage and run back to them himself. I'd been living as a human. A f*****g human in the city, thinking I was normal. My family had hidden everything from me—the pack, the wars, what I really was. They'd died keeping that secret, and suddenly I was thrown into a world where people shifted into wolves and kil

