The ground splits beneath my feet before I can take another breath. A line of light cuts across the earth like a blade dragging through flesh. The world trembles. My wolf lunges forward inside me so fast that my vision blurs. She feels it before I do. The pull. The danger. The desperate need to flee or fight or both.
Then the cracked earth yawns open.
I do not fall normally. It is more like something beneath the world pulls me down. Hands made of light. Fingers made of silver. My lungs seize as the air is ripped away. My wolf surges, trying to anchor herself to something solid, but the ground dissolves around us. My body jerks. Heat sweeps across my chest.
I hear Adam shout my name, raw and terrified.
For one heartbeat I see the sky shatter into streaks of white above us. Then everythi
