One More Hot Contract with the Shadow Alpha
I say, my voice carrying that low, melodic resonance that makes the air around us shiver.
I pull away from his grip, but I don't walk away from him. I reach back, my fingers locking into his broad palm, our charcoal-stained hands sealing together like a single weapon. We step out from between the boulders and descend into the amphitheater.
The moment my bare feet touch the volcanic rock, the three hundred Southern warriors let out a simultaneous, earth-shaking roar—a rhythmic, subterranean howl that makes the basalt pillars vibrate. They drop to one knee, their heavy iron shields striking the stone with a sound like thunder. The Council guards look at them, then at the massive obsidian wolf-
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