The nightmares didn't wake me. The voices did.
Not inside my head. Not inside my dreams. Outside.
Whispers drifting through the window like smoke.
Whispers that sounded like me.
I sat upright so fast my vision blurred. My wolf pressed against my ribs, anxious and alert. She growled at the open window like someone had broken in.
Addy, asleep on the spare mattress on my floor because she refused to leave me alone tonight, bolted upright too.
“What was that,” she whispered.
“My voice,” I said, goosebumps lifting across my arms. “Except it was not me.”
Addy grabbed her phone. “I am calling Theo.”
“Do it,” I said, already pulling on boots.
By the time we reached the main hall, chaos had begun. Warriors poured in and out of the side doors. Gamma teams suited up. Theo barked orders whil
