RONAN The last rock fell with a final, echoing thud… And she was gone. Her beautiful Amber eyes looking into mine were gone. One breath. That’s all it took for the world to cave in. I stared at the sealed tunnel, frozen in place. My wolf was no different than me. The sunlight warmed my skin, but inside, I was ice. Shocked and suddenly feeling a strange feeling rising inside me. She had been left inside. Not alone but with thousands of vampires. My chest heaved, air scraping my lungs, but it did nothing—no air could reach the hole her absence tore open in me. What was this feeling? I wanted to rip something apart. Someone apart. A sound ripped from my throat—half growl, half something else. Something darker. “NO!!” I lunged at the blocked tunnel, falling to my knees as I clawe

