Chapter 72:
THE TRAIL OF A MONSTER
The air in the rogue settlement was thick with tension.
Darius had given us a lead one that confirmed my worst fear. Michael wasn’t just alive. He wasn’t just claimed.
He was changing.
I could still hear Darius’s words echoing in my mind. Like he was becoming something else.
Ethan was already moving, pacing like a caged predator, his fists clenched at his sides. “If we have a trail, we follow it. Now.”
Gabriel nodded, already scanning the dirt path leading out of the settlement. “They had to have left tracks. A group that big doesn’t just vanish.”
Darius smirked. “You’re assuming they travel like normal men.”
Ethan’s eyes darkened. “And you’re assuming I won’t rip your throat out.”
Darius chuckled. “Careful, Alpha. You’re start
