ALARIC POV
Rain hit my fur barely enough to cut through the heat boiling under my skin.
Elias was ahead of me.
Too far ahead.
A dark shape ripping through the forest like something that had slipped out of a nightmare instead of a wolf chasing prey.
Fuck.
He wasn’t thinking anymore.
Not as a man.
Not even as a beta.
Elias was gone.
Bloodlust had swallowed him whole, wrapped around his throat and dragged him under before any of us had time to grab him, and bringing him back from that was going to be a f*****g nightmare.
If I even could.
I knew that sensation way too well, and I knew how difficult it would be to bring him back. Aria had to mark me to take me back...
Drake pushed harder beneath my skin, muscles stretching, paws digging into wet earth as we tore through the trees
