body complained at the same time. The clearing around me looked dead; trees snapped, earth torn up, smoke drifting

wild and face streaked with mud. "I'm never doing that

ame first. "You look like death warmed over, Lyra. Kinda cute, though." I shot him a

h his cold eyes enough to freeze blood. Watching us like we were prey he hadn't decided to eat yet. My st

is presence. The kind you don

w and annoyingly calm. "Not unt

e to. "We're the rogues you've been hunt

the smallest smir

eant something, like he h

ze slid to him: slow, deliberate, dangerous. He didn't n

ove. The alpha from last night isn

for the morning to feel safe. He stepped closer, and th

" he said. "But you follow

heat crawling up my neck. "We survive

t silent. That silence felt lik

old themselves together by instincts more than strength. E

th. By the time we reached the ridge, my whole body want

t lay below. There were not

es and a smell that made my stomach flip. They we

athed. Damian had stepped behind me, voice anno

ut the look on his face was

gh them. Their alpha stepped forward, face to

hide her fo

a whimpered and Kaelen

looked at them like he was alrea

showing teeth that didn't

. she belo

ugh the ground. Because suddenly

out of choices. And there I realized t