Nick’s fists hit the sandbag in a steady, savage rhythm. The gym smelled of iron, sweat, and pinewood, all emanating from the morning heat. His wolf paced beneath his skin, restless, irritated as if it needed something he couldn’t name. The impact shook up his wrist, but he didn’t stop. Like the primal man he was, he welcomed the sting, embracing it like a substance his consciousness needed, letting him drag out of his scattered thoughts. He should be focusing on the shifting ceremony. Just two days away. He had enough on his plate, with accommodating some neighboring packs that had arrived and others that would be arriving tonight for the ceremony, setting up a training program for newly shifted wolves, and deciding on a new trade alliance with the mundanes. Instead, all he could see was a set of caramel eyes and feel that inexplicable spark and feistiness crawling under his ribs. All he could do to hold his rage in was punch the bag continuously, claws half-phasing, releasing stea
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