POV: Elias Beaumont
The scream came from inside the abandoned building, and it definitely wasn't human.
I pressed my back against the brick wall, signaling for my watch team to stay quiet. We'd been tracking strange reports for weeks - animals found drained of blood, witnesses claiming they saw people with glowing eyes, and worst of all, three missing hikers who vanished without a trace.
"Alpha," Marcus whispered beside me. "That sounded like—"
Another scream cut him off. This one was definitely human.
I made my choice. "We go in. But stay together and stay alert."
The warehouse door hung open, creaking in the wind. Inside, everything was dark except for a strange blue glow coming from the back corner. As we crept closer, I could smell something that made my wolf flinch in fear.
Death. But not the normal kind.
We rounded a stack of old boxes and found something that shouldn't exist.
