DALTON POV *I had this song playing while writing this chapter, out it on speaker if you like it “way down we go” Kaleo* It was like my heart had been ripped out and tossed into a pit of fire. And Shade—my wolf—was barely leashed. Pacing inside me. Snarling. Bloodlust curling around the edges of my vision like smoke. We ran, Derrick and I, our legs eating the distance with inhuman speed. We were barely human anymore—just fury and instinct and the scent of the one man who knew. The only other fucker, besides us, who knew the truth about Kai. Alpha Leo. His scent twisted in the air, smug and sour. And there—beneath it—something else. Professor Garrett. We stopped at the last door on the north wing of the professors' dorms. Thick, old oak. Useless against rage like ours. Derrick and

