~AMARIS
The peaceful illusion of the morning shattered with a violent, jarring suddenness that made the warm mug of tea in my hand shake precariously between my fingers.
One moment, I was sitting under the fading neon strobe lights, letting the cool dawn mist soothe my burning skin, and the next, a profound, unyielding chaos erupted from the security quarters. Two high-ranking guards burst out into the courtyard, their faces tight with an intense, fast-moving panic that I had never seen on them before. They vanished into the main pack house, only to return a few minutes later with a towering, terrifying shadow walking right behind them.
Alpha Varg.
The mere sight of his massive, imposing frame walking out onto the stone terrace brought back the raw, suffocating terror I had spent the e
