MY SKIN JANGLED WITH nerves, the memory of Aiti’s shriek echoing in my ears. But I didn’t head straight for the hatch in the floor. Instead I walked over to the window—the route I hoped to use for escape after swiping the Kingmaker.
Wolfie was still there below me. I blinked in disbelief. The alpha of the pack had spent an entire night in lupine form lying on his daughter’s lawn to make sure I felt secure?
The pang in my stomach wasn’t just from hunger now. And it was almost as if Wolfie felt my reaction. When I first peered out the window, he had appeared to be dozing. But some instinct must have told him I was watching because he rose to his feet...to two human feet.
He’d shifted so fast I missed the transition. One second he was a lightly grizzled wolf, the next he was a similarly gr
