Sebastian's POV
The alarm came at two in the morning.
I was already half awake when the howl reached the house from the eastern border. That distant, sharp sound that every Alpha knows before they are fully conscious of knowing it. Something was wrong at the perimeter.
I was dressed and out of the door in less than a minute.
Kael met me in the yard. Behind him, a dozen of the border wolves were shifting, the air filling with the sound of it, that low charged silence that happens in the space between a man and his wolf.
"Rogues," Kael said. "At least six. They breached the eastern line near the old mill."
I did not wait. I shifted.
There is nothing quite like the relief of the shift when the tension has been building long enough. The human body carries its weight differently than the
