The dense woods seemed to hold their breath in terrified silence. My body was trembling so violently that my teeth clicked together in a fast, unsteady rhythm.
Then, it happened. Alpha Damon moved like a blur of dark shadow. He exploded into motion, traveling so fast across the forest floor that I couldn't even see his heavy boots touch the grass.
He reached the man holding the syringe first. Damon didn't bother drawing a blade; he simply lunged out with his bare, massive hand and clamped his fingers around the intruder's throat. A terrifying, wet choking noise tore from the man's mouth. In one fluid movement, Damon hurled him through the air as if he weighed no more than a feather.
CRACK!
The man smashed violently against the trunk of a massive oak tree, the sheer force of the impact
