The sun was starting to dip below the horizon when I felt it—a surge of unease, an emotion that wasn’t my own but rippled through the pack bond like a whisper on the wind. It hit me out of nowhere, tightening my chest and sending a shiver up my spine. I knew that feeling well by now, the weight of another wolf’s turmoil bleeding into the collective consciousness we all shared.
Marcus.
He’d been distant for days, more withdrawn than I’d ever seen him. The sharp, biting remarks he usually threw my way were gone, replaced by a brooding silence that was almost worse. He was struggling with something, that much was clear, but no one in the pack seemed to know what it was. Not even Ethan, who had always been closest to Marcus, could get him to open up.
But this time, it felt different. The un
