FAZER LOGINThe shadow wolf lunged toward the boy.Lyralei's body moved before her brain caught up. She threw herself forward and grabbed the kid's shoulders. Her hands yanked him backward hard enough that his head snapped back. The wolf's jaws closed on empty air where his throat had been a heartbeat earlier.Crunch.Joefrey's claws punched through the wolf's skull from above. Black blood sprayed across the stone and the creature dissolved before it could turn for another attack.They were still surrounded.Lyralei pulled the boy behind her and pressed his back against a boulder. He was shaking so badly his teeth were chattering. His breathing came in short gasps that sounded like he was choking.Joefrey stood in front of them and killed another wolf that tried to dart in from the left. His claws drove through its chest and found the heart. The wolf dissolved. Another one came from the right. He caught it mid-leap and crushed its skull with one hand.The shadow wolves kept coming.They pressed i
Joefrey stood frozen for one second that felt like an eternity.The boy was screaming, the corrupted Alpha was laughing, and shadow wolves were closing in from all sides, but Joefrey's mind was locked on the mistake he'd just made.He'd had a clean chance to kill the corrupted Alpha, one perfect opening where the bastard's guard was down, and he'd chosen Lyralei instead.That one emotional choice had given the enemy the boy again.Lyralei saw the guilt hit him, saw it crash over his face like a physical blow, and she realized this wasn't just about the boy anymore, this was about Joefrey's whole identity as the Alpha who always made the correct tactical move, who never let emotion cloud his judgment."Joefrey," she said sharply, trying to cut through whatever spiral he was falling into.But he was still staring at where the corrupted Alpha now held the boy, his jaw clenched so tight she could see the muscle jumping beneath his skin.The shadow wolves were twenty feet away now, then fi
The shadow wolves rushed them.Joefrey moved first and pulled Lyralei backward into a narrow rocky path that cut between two massive boulders. The passage was barely wide enough for two people to stand side by side, which meant the wolves couldn't surround them properly.They came anyway.The first wolf lunged through the gap and Joefrey's claws drove straight through its chest. He felt the heart rupture around his fingers before he ripped his hand back. Black blood sprayed across the rocks. The wolf dissolved before its body hit the ground.Another charged through. Lyralei drove her sharpened stake through its eye socket and the tip punched out the back of its skull. It collapsed mid-stride.The narrow path forced the wolves to come at them one or two at a time instead of swarming all at once. Joefrey used that advantage and turned the bottleneck into a killing floor. He shifted to half-form and his body stretched taller with claws that could punch through stone. Every strike targete
Lyralei and Joefrey left the ruined settlement behind and began climbing the hill toward the ritual ground.The slope was steep and rocky with loose stones that shifted under their boots. Moonlight washed everything in silver and made the exposed sections of the climb look like they were glowing. There was no cover up here. No trees. Just rock and open air.Lyralei's body ached from everything she'd been through. The beating from Nessa. The shadow wolf chase. The constant shifting between forms. Her muscles felt like they'd been wrung out and left to dry, but she could still move and fight and climb without collapsing. Just not for long.Joefrey's shoulder was stiff from the fight earlier. She could see it in the way he moved, favoring his left side and keeping his right arm close to his body. His ribs were probably broken or cracked from where the shadow wolves had hit him. But his face had lost that grey pallor from blood loss and his breathing was steady.They weren't helpless. The
Joefrey stared at Lyralei completely shell-shocked.She was standing there naked asking if he was a virgin. People were dying. His pack was under siege. Shadow wolves were hunting them both. And she was asking the most absurd fucking question possible.Rage flared in his chest at her shamelessness but it warred with the awareness that he was still staring at her. At all of her. His eyes had a mind of their own and kept tracking down despite his best efforts to keep them on her face.He cursed under his breath and forced himself to look away.She smirked. He caught it in his peripheral vision and it pissed him off even more."You're avoiding the question," she said casually like they were discussing the weather instead of standing naked in the woods while an army of corrupted wolves hunted them.Joefrey ignored her and tried to focus on literally anything else. His mind raced with justifications he didn't ask for. He was only inexperienced because duty to the pack came first. Women thr
Lyralei tumbled down the hill and fought furiously against the shadow wolf that still had her paw locked in its teeth.The ground came up hard beneath her and she felt rocks tear at her fur as she rolled. The wolf's jaws clamped down tighter and refused to give her any chance to break free. Pain shot through her foreleg with every movement.She could hear the others above jumping down the slope and chasing after her. Their claws scraped against rock and dirt rained down as they descended.She was fucked and she knew it.Desperation clawed at her chest and she made a decision. Her mark flared beneath her fur and gold light blazed across her body. Her eyes glowed molten gold and her fur took on an ethereal glow.Almost immediately she felt that presence lock onto her again.Kragoth's attention snapped toward her like a predator's gaze fixing on prey. She could feel it pressing against her mind with that same malicious weight she'd felt in the settlement. But worse than that, she felt th
Lyralei stared at Gerald, her heart hammering against her ribs as she waited for a reaction from him. But he just looked back at her with that same patient expression, like he was waiting for her to continue.The silence stretched until she couldn't stand it anymore."That's it," she said, shaking
"Why the hell are you still clothed?"Lyralei smirked, her eyes dragging down the length of his body without a shred of shame. Every scar, every line of muscle, the way his cock stood rock hard—she took it all in like she was committing him to memory.Gerald stood proudly, opening his arms in invita
Lyralei finally looked up at the warriors chanting her name, and the moment they saw her attention on them they roared even louder. Their voices bounced off the stone walls, echoing back until it felt like the entire world was shouting at her."Say something," Eliasen muttered beside her.Lyralei w
Lyralei felt herself falling through darkness that wrapped around her like a familiar embrace, and recognition slammed into her with the force of a physical blow.She was in that space again. That place between life and death where time moved differently and reality bent at the edges.Memories rush







