Lulu I couldn’t move. Caspian yanked me back hard, pinning my arm against the doorframe. He bolted past me—a blur of pure Alpha speed. He slammed his shoulder into that fast-moving shadow, trying to pin the thing against the wall. A massive thud echoed through the damp basement, but the creature didn’t even flinch. The shadow—this thing that looked human but had skin like thick, black sludge—barely shifted. Caspian let out a low growl, his arms bunching as he threw a rapid-fire sequence of punches. Every hit should’ve been enough to shatter an adult wolf’s ribs, but his fists just sank into the dark mass of the creature’s body. No blood. No grunt of pain. Nothing. Caspian summoned a torrent of water from his hands, waves of current swirling around him. But the creature’s body just s

