CHAPTER 26 AURORAIn a thick cloud of fog, warriors crowded in our backyard, prepared to run to Syncome Mountains. Since we couldn’t take cars, I stretched out on the lawn to hopefully warm up my muscles and brace my wolf for a painful shift. “Stay here,” Ares ordered to Minerva. “Protect the packs.” “I’m not letting you go without me,” she said. “Why the f**k not?” Ares’s nails lengthened into claws, his teeth extending into sharp canines. Since I’d warned him about Charolette last night, he hadn’t given control to Mars. Ares had been hostile, angry, and ready to rage in the blink of an eye. “Because you’re unstable,” Minerva said, narrowing her eyes. From what I’d gathered about her so far, she excelled at war, but unlike Ares, she kept her cool and always had well-defined battle pl

