Zaiden’s POV
The bond burned.
At first, I thought it was just the echo of fear the fear she felt the night the rogues attacked Sunrise. But this… this was different.
It clawed at my chest, sharp and unrelenting. Her pain. Her hunger. Her exhaustion. Every breath she struggled to take seared through me like fire.
I slammed my fist into the oak table, splintering it down the middle. Papers scattered, Cole flinched, but I didn’t care. The room couldn’t contain the fury writhing inside me.
“They beat her,” I growled, voice low and lethal. My claws ripped through my skin, my wolf too close to the surface. “Those filthy mongrels dared touch what’s mine.”
Cole’s jaw tightened. “We’ll find her, Alpha. The patrols are sweeping the borders, the trackers….”
“Not fast enough!” My roar shook the
