~AMARIS
The bright, unfiltered glare of the daylight breeze on the rooftop terrace had done absolutely nothing to cool the raw, chaotic fever vibrating deep inside my veins. The heavy glass doors slid shut behind me with a quiet, final thud, cutting off the vast, panoramic view of the rolling green hills of the Iron-Howl Pack estate. I stood in the quiet upper corridor, my knees trembling violently as my legs could hardly keep me steady.
My entire body felt heavy, unmoored, and completely shattered by the absolute intensity of what had just passed between Alpha Varg and me under the open sky.
Varg had received a sudden, urgent mind-link from the border scouts…an emergency that required his immediate, authoritative presence…leaving me alone on the terrace to pull the scattered pieces of
