LEILANI
My heart dropped to my stomach as I rushed into the alley to find a shadow with an object raised high in the air, ready to strike an unsuspecting Aesir. I opened my mouth to warn Aesir that there was someone behind him, but he was moving before my lips could form the first letter.
Aesir had shifted and turned around with a speed I didn’t think was possible even for our kind. I watched in a state of shock as his claws dug into the shoulder of the guy; his attacker let out a scream as Aesir had him off his feet in seconds and was slamming him against the wall.
He growled words at the guy, but I barely registered what he had said as I took in Aesir’s form. He hadn’t shifted into wolf form. No, this form was something between man and wolf. He…
“A Lycan,” Aina murmured, the word I w
