Outside the study, the night wind swept the clouds aside, revealing a brilliant full moon over Frostvale.
Under a full moon, a werewolf's strength reached its peak, and every sense and instinct sharpened to its keenest edge.
Raine was about to give orders for the next stage of the secret search when his entire body suddenly went rigid.
The silver dagger slipped from his hand and struck the floor with a metallic clang.
He clutched the left side of his chest with both hands.
"Alpha! What's wrong? Did an old wound reopen?" Jack rushed forward in alarm.
"Don't come closer!" Raine gasped, veins standing out across his forehead.
Two heavy beats thudded somewhere deep in his mind.
Then a strange rhythm began to pulse through his mind.
It wasn't his own heartbeat. A pulse had crossed an i
