♚Archer♚
“Ready?” Marcus asked when he saw me.
“Yes. Let’s do this,” I said as I grabbed a bag and camping chair. I had barely made it through the day without snapping at someone. Every second had been spent in meetings or writing out patrol schedules that felt like a wasted hour, a stolen hour that could have been spent hunting Malrik. But I was Alpha, and that meant I had duties to attend to. And this threat to the pack wasn’t going to handle itself. We moved out and kept to the shadows. The trees on the eastern edge were thick, and the branches were heavy with last week’s rain. Neither of us said a word as we moved with practiced silence. Every sound, the snap of a twig, the distant bark of a fox, set my nerves higher. We found a hollow behind a fallen tree where the ground was dry b
