Calista released the battle howl before she’d even finished shifting. I didn’t have time then to think about her audacity—only the Alpha could make that sound—because it took only a second for her enormous white wolf to pounce.
Mine exploded to the surface, shredding my T-shirt and jeans with the force of her arrival. She pushed her sharp rows of teeth into my elongating jaw, her claws through the tips of my widening paws. My ears stretched out in a rush of sound as if someone had turned up the volume on the whole city. Muscles bulged and bent in previously impossible directions, molding me into a canine shape. My fluffy tail blossomed from my tailbone like a flower on a vine.
Our bodies collided like thunder, rattling the windows and the floor and the doors across the room. We rolled ov
