The border alarm slammed through the mind link so fast and so hard that every wolf in the packhouse stiffened at the same time. A psychic shockwave. Sharp. Urgent. A warning howl rolled through our heads like thunder.
Intruder at the forest line. Unknown aura. Approaching.
Jack grabbed my wrist immediately. His wolf surged forward so fast my vision flickered with gold. “Stay behind me.”
“I was already behind you.”
“Stay even more behind me.”
“That is not how physics works.”
Before he could argue, Beau’s voice ripped through the link, ragged and breathless.
I see it. Approaching from the north trees. It looks like her. Same aura burn. Same eyes.
My heart stopped.
For a moment, everything in the packhouse stilled. Wolves froze mid step. Breath caught in throats. The air itself seeme
