Beau dropped to one knee beside the stone before I could get another breath in. His fingers hovered over the smear of blood like touching it might shatter him. His voice came out low and rough.
“This is fresh.”
I swallowed, stepped forward, and pressed my fingertips to the crimson streak. Warm. Still warm. My pulse slammed against my ribs so hard my vision flickered.
The moment my skin met the blood, my aura snapped outward. Hard. Violent. Sparks spat off my hands. The ground trembled under my boots. My wolf lunged so fast into my chest it felt like I had been punched from the inside.
Then a voice slipped into my mind like a blade sliding between ribs.
Sister. Come find him.
Aurek.
My lungs locked. My spine arched backward. For a second everything spun. The forest tilted. My knees b
