sta

high in the air, suffocatin

sible that I was

hole wolves

make any s

made equal s

egendary ruler of th

in this pack, bullied,

an with gray eyes tol

y belie

deep, deep inside, that wondered if

king my head, backing

't jus

he said firmly, his

sh. You've felt it, haven't you? The pull, the

I hit the stone

ding, my mind spin

me. I'm nobody and I can't be somebody useful to t

," he said, his tone softer now, like he wa

u to rise up to the peak. The pack is shifting day after day. The world is sh

ing, and was total

t, to tell him he

gy that was inside of me that had been growing ever since the three men arrived. It was like

said, my voice shaky, and my

me? Wh

tion, the sound of hurried foo

nce, and two more of the three men

f them said, h

d to mov

I had come to know him, nodded sharpl

's hap

" one of th

w she's connected to

pped with th

u mean by,

ced at me, h

tal. Afraid of what you might be if you accept fate

shock washi

? How

eat to then all," Alpha

how we've protected you, how we've watched you. And

, like a sharp dagger

nt to...

understand w

his voice tig

ou, they won't stop at all. You're too power

y mind racing and my

. they can't...

d they would do it. I had seen the looks of susp

e pack had never cared about me before, but now

hatever it took to e

t once," the man

ere will be bloo

mine, and I could see the we

, we all have been waiting f

, my voice shakin

what?"

ith his eyes locked into mine, stepping closer

o run and hi

r pulsing through me,

on't know

es sof

d to see it in your point of view. But you're not alone in this.

him, and for the first time, I realized they

way from home. They were here

ut these men, these strangers, they had show

ood looking

," he looked to h

beta

Gamma

hree

ers and we promise to be your

ter there words, my hea

ppens if

ips curved into

ht. You become what you were al

if I s

u away from he

unning forever, hiding from the powe

wasn't ready for this challenge if life. I didn'

ck would come for me, and I would lose wha

anding who

in a slow, shaky breath

anymore fr

looked up at Alpha, my deci

l fi

something like pride

Go

er, its blade gleaming in the moonlight, whi

Alpha said, hold

o awaken your

nd before reaching out to t

nt the cool metal touched my skin, something i

, a rush of energy surged t

as the power flooded my se

Dante said, his voice

only the

tire body humming with a strange, t

hrough my veins, igniting something deep with

distance, I heard

ho

as coming

Dante said, his gray eyes

hem who you really are, and te

nodding as I felt the energy bu

sn't afraid for anything, or even a

nything that was