Kate's POV
Pain.
Then, something impossibly clear.
When I opened my eyes, the world had been reshuffled entirely.
Dust particles suspended in the air. The hairline fractures in the window glass six feet away. Even the heartbeats through two solid walls, thundering against my eardrums like drums pressed to my skin.
The world had never felt so loud, so crowded, so mine.
And my wolf... she was nothing like the quiet shadow I had carried for years. She was ancient. She was vast. She stretched her claws with the unhurried arrogance of something that had never once feared anything.
I accepted that without question.
Three men stood around me.
Damian. Damon. Darius.
The Voss brothers. The most powerful Alpha trio in the country. Men whose presence alone had once made every instinct in my
