SHADOW "I can't believe this is happening." I slumped my butt onto the couch. "This is different, Shadow," Lyon said as he sat on the chair across mine. I wasn't convinced because I felt it was a déjà vu all over again. It had been months since the attack at the compound, and I hadn't fully recovered from what we lost— our fallen. I was still visited by that nightmare of watching Zack dying in my arms. I couldn't go through that again. "Hey." I felt Zack's hand on my knee, causing Califf to groan. In an instant, his hand was gone. "No one would ever cross Alpha. This is not a work of our pack." "How do you know it's not one of us?" I looked him in the eye. He was worried. I felt everyone's emotions— they were all worried. They knew we were all in danger if someone would

