I exhaled softly, letting the silence stretch.
“I should go back to the house,” I said after a beat, brushing my palms together.
He gave a small nod.
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ALEXANDER
I was halfway back into the house when I caught their voices. At first, it was nothing more than idle chatter drifting through the evening air...two pack members, probably lingering too long after their duties. Normally, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought. But then I heard it.
“…a wolf with three dark eyes,” one said.
I stopped dead in my tracks. My ears sharpened, every instinct straining.
The other scoffed. “No, no, no—you’ve got it all wrong. It wasn’t like that. Besides, nobody said whether the eyes were open or closed, so stop making things up.”
There was a sharp edge of irritation in his voice, like he had
