I've never fought for my life and my new family in the same ten minutes before.
The attack hit fast and hard, Viper forces pouring across the boundary line in numbers that made clear this had been planned meticulously, waiting only for the exact moment of weakness Garrick had promised them. Floodlights snapped on across the compound, chaos erupting in every direction, wolves and Vipers colliding in the open yard in a brutal, fast-moving melee that left no room for hesitation.
I'd never experienced anything like the sound of it — the chaos of engines and shouting and gunfire all colliding at once, a wall of noise so total it seemed to erase every other sense for a moment, leaving only pure, animal instinct to fill the gap. My body reacted before my mind had time to catch up, some part of
