Alexander:
The punch barely registered.
Not the sting.
Not the shock.
What hit me, hard enough to steal my breath, was watching her run.
She was running from me…
My wolf roared inside my skull, hot and savage.
We need to get to her.
And I ran… because I knew that he was right.
I tore after her, the courtyard erupting into chaos behind me as warriors scattered out of the way.
“Alpha…!”
“Stop her!”
“Is he going to…?”
I didn’t hear the rest. I didn’t have time to bother with whatever they were going to say. I had to catch her, because I knew more than anything that if she got caught in a mess that would harm either one of them, it would be my fault.
All I heard was my own footsteps pounding the earth, my pulse slamming in my ears, and her scent, wild, terrified, tangled with th
