Kael's POV
Nightfang Territory - Royal Bedchamber
The pain wakes me.
I bolt upright in bed, my hand pressed against my chest, my heart slamming against my ribs. The pain is sharp, sudden, like a blade between my ribs. But there's no wound. No blood. Just this terrible, inexplicable ache.
And my wolf is howling.
Not in anger. Not in warning. In grief.
"What is it?" I gasp, swinging my legs over the side of the bed. "What's wrong?"
The wolf doesn't answer in words. It never does. But I feel its urgency, its desperation. It wants to run. It wants to go east. It wants to find something.
Someone.
I pace the chamber, my bare feet cold against the stone floor. The moon hangs low outside the window, full and bright, casting silver light across the room. It's beautiful. But tonight, it fe
