Luna was deep in conversation with Sarah about pack healing traditions when the commotion started. Shouts erupted from the perimeter guards, followed by the sound of vehicles approaching through the forest. Her newly awakened wolf senses immediately went on high alert, picking up scents that didn't belong—gasoline, expensive cologne, and something else that made her hackles rise.
"What's happening?" Luna asked, rising from her seat in the pack's informal medical center.
Sarah's expression had gone grim as she listened to the distant voices. "Someone's breached our outer defenses. That shouldn't be possible—the pack lands are warded against human detection."
Kane's voice boomed across the settlement, his Alpha authority carrying clearly in the mountain air. "All pack members to defensive
