17 hours earlier
Gabriel
"You're carrying my heir, now come back...you can't defy fate!" I growled, my powerful alpha voice reverberating with an undeniable force. "Take your rightful place at my side, or you'll be captured!"
I locked eyes on the sleek silver wolf fleeing into the night - the very female werewolf now pregnant with my child. Her intoxicating scent hung ripe in the air, stoking an insatiable drive within me to claim what was mine.
Tensing my haunches, I prepared to give chase, but sudden shouts and commotion shattered the stillness around me.
"Stand down and surrender or we will open fire!" a gruff voice shouted. I whipped around to find myself surrounded by U.S. soldiers, their assault rifles trained on me.
A rumble built in my broad chest as Fury, my bestial wolf counterpart, raged just beneath the surface.
"Those puny humans dare interfere with forces far beyond their comprehension," he snarled inside my head.
In a blur, I launched myself at the nearest soldier, seiz
