Chapter 50
While the others remained below—Leah, Sin, and Dr. Quinn fussing over Sarah and dissecting Carter’s emotional shutdown—Dorian, Brandon, and Mikey tracked the heavy scent of pine and isolation. They found Jasper, Carter’s wolf, perched on a jagged mountain peak, half-hidden by the shifting shadows of the evergreens. He looked less like a predator and more like a statue of grief, hunched low on his haunches.
One by one, the sound of cracking bones echoed through the clearing as the three men shifted back to their human forms. Carter had heard them miles ago. He’d felt the steady, rhythmic thrum of their approach and knew a reckoning was coming. He wasn't surprised that the pack's heavy hitters had come to find him; Sarah wasn’t just a pack member—she was Dorian’s cousin by marri
