Leah Carter’s Point of View
The howls rolled over Silver Hollow like thunder. One, then another, until the night itself seemed alive with the sound of teeth and hunger. Emma stirred in her fevered sleep. Caleb muttered, thrashing on the couch. Damien bolted upright in the other room, the creak of the boards sharp in the silence that followed.
I clung to the window frame, my heart pounding so hard I swore the glass rattled. Kael’s eyes still burned through the dark, molten gold cutting through the shadows.
“What do you mean they want my execution?” My voice was a rasp, barely a whisper.
His reply was steady, cold as stone. “Word spreads quickly in the Wolf Realm. Seraya has raised a faction. She tells them I’ve broken sacred law,....” his jaw clenched, his teeth bared slightly “that no
