Chapter 18
Anger and fear carried me back up the same flights of stairs I’d traversed twice already in the last half hour. Rage turned my key in the apartment’s lock and powered me through the darkened room on fox-soft feet. But once I tiptoed up to Kira’s bed and found the girl snoring on her pillow, the events of the night all caught up with me at once.
An intriguing—and far too astute—alpha. A well-named Jackal nipping at the heels of those stronger than himself. A serial killer on the loose who appeared to possess my mother’s missing possessions. And Kira, caught in the middle, with only me to defend her from the horrors of the outside world.
At least I still had my sword...and whatever information I could glean by tapping into my neighbor’s unprotected wireless connection.
To that
