Fenris snarled, pulling himself off me. I glanced over and cautiously sat upright. In the blink of an eye, a massive black wolf stood where the man had been moments before. He growled again, blazing amber eyes meeting mine. I swore I could feel his will at that moment. Is that what an alpha command feels like? Fenris had never used one on me before, though he’d described them as a compulsion.
But he can’t even talk like this.
I reached out despite myself but made no effort to stand.
All at once, the chorus of howls outside fell silent. A chill ran up my spine, and I couldn’t stop the full-body shudder, ready to blame the eerie silence when I realized something changed with the barrier. It felt like a shell being cracked, spidering, the way a bird’s egg slowly splintered before a beak po
