Unknown Point of View
The forest closes in around me, thick, damp, and endless. Every breath I drag in tastes like dirt and blood. My lungs burn, my legs ache, but I do not stop. I cannot.
Branches claw at my skin as I push through the undergrowth, stumbling, and catching myself against a tree. The bark rips into my palm, but the pain barely cuts through the pounding in my head. All I can think about is getting back. Getting to him.
To my Alpha.
We were supposed to draw them out, to keep the Lunaris wolves chasing shadows while the others moved unseen. It was supposed to be quick. Clean. No one was supposed to get caught.
But one of us did.
I can still hear the sound of him being tackled, a snarl that turned into a scream, then nothing. Those two future alphas, Trevor and Alec, I thi
