KATHARINA
How was that possible?
Confusion surged through me as I stared at the pup standing in the rose garden.
It had slipped past my reinforced enchantments—again.
And just like before, I hadn’t sensed its approach or its entry at all.
The first time could have been dismissed as an accident. A stroke of luck. Perhaps even an oversight on my part.
But a second time?
Calling it a coincidence no longer sufficed.
I had lived here for a century, and in all that time, no living creature—animal, human, or supernatural—had ever crossed my boundaries without my knowledge.
Yet this pup had done so twice.
When I had examined it during our first encounter, its body had revealed nothing unusual. By all accounts, it was an ordinary wild wolf.
And I trusted my abilities. I could not possibl
