This has been a long night. I look up and I’ll be damned—it’s a full moon. The sky stretches above me, massive and luminous, the kind that makes every wolf in a hundred-mile radius feel the pull deep in their bones. My bones included, though I’m fighting the urge to shift, and just run, with everything I have left. River and Cade stayed behind with their father, Alpha Rian, making sure no one interfered with the investigation. No one sabotaged it. There was a criminal investigation of the scene of Alpha Korr’s assassination. He will then be moved ironically to the same morgue my father was in just days before. Luna Elizabeth walks with me on my right, her heels clicking against the asphalt with surprising precision for someone wearing four-inch stilettos at two in the morning. Shia

