Alpha Bladens POV The tone carried panic. But if held something close enough to make everything else fall way. The wolf who had called me didn’t walk ahead this time. He stayed where he was, waiting, his posture rigid in a way that suggested he didn’t want to be close to whatever he had found. I stepped past him heading to where a sound was coming from. I got there and the wolf on the ground earlier wasn’t still. Hours ago, he had barely been able to breath without strain, his body weakened, barely holding. But now he strained against the hands holding him down. Four wolves and still. He fought. “Hold him.” The command came from somewhere writhing the circle, sharp and controlled. The ones restraining him adjusted immediately, tightening their grip as his body jerked violently b

