SERAPHINA The vampire’s words rang like a whisper in my skull—A she-wolf. Fear gripped my heart. So it was not just a rumor. Vampires could really tell male or female by the scent of their blood. My perfume failed when confronted with vampires. Phina growled in my mind, “But no one else heard him!” I clenched my fists to help control my fear. Yeah, none of the Alphas had heard the vampire because of the bats on the ceiling screamed. So loud that it hurt my ears. Thousands of wings exploded into the air, a sound like a tsunami made of bone and shadow. The bats—no, the vampires—were awake. “AAAA!” Ronan growled, driving the iron rod into the weakened wall alongside Finn using all of his strength while Dante gave it a hard kick and Asher’s wolf practically plowed into the wall like

