Rowan POV
I have been coordinating the border response with Garrett and two of my senior warriors when the eastern gate sound hit.
The crack of something under force. A distraction,well timed and placed. I
I fell for it completely because my attention stretched thin between the border strategy and twenty Obsidian wolves in my yard and Nerissa.
Garrett figured it out faster than me.
He headed to the pack house on a run before I finished processing what the sound actually was.
By the time I reached the main corridor it was already over in one sense.
Kaelor was walking Nerissa out.
The bruise from yesterday was worse today.
Swollen into something that had spread beyond the original site and darkened into the deep colors that came when the same place got hit twice.
I stood against t
