The howls grew louder.
They echoed across the territory like thunder rolling through the sky, deep and threatening. My heart pounded violently as the hospital windows rattled again, the glass trembling under the force of approaching wolves.
They were close.
Too close.
Alpha Theodore stood near the door, his entire body tense, every muscle coiled like a weapon ready to strike. The calm restraint he usually carried was gone. In its place stood a true Alpha dangerous, powerful, commanding.
“Guards are moving into formation,” he said, listening to something beyond my hearing range. “They breached the outer boundary faster than expected.”
My throat tightened. “They came for me…”
His silence confirmed it.
Fear crawled up my spine, but beneath it something else stirred the same strange en
