The air was heavy with silence. The kind that crawled beneath your skin and made every breath sound too loud. The wolf stood between us and the shadows that lingered at the edge of the forest, its massive form still as stone. Its eyes, burning gold under the dim moonlight, flicked between the darkness and me, every muscle coiled and ready.
The former alpha of Redwater Falls stood a few feet away, his jaw tight, one hand resting on the hilt of his knife. “They’re watching us.” he muttered, voice low and gravelly. “You feel it too, don’t you?”
I nodded, my gaze never leaving the treeline. “Yeah. They’re close. Too close.”
The shadows moved again. Just enough for my instincts to flare. Whoever was out there knew how to blend into the dark, but their presence wasn’t subtle. It was deliberat
