BARBARIAN: The Mad Alpha Is My Mate.
Colossal, black as the dark around it, its body wrapped in more chain than Caierre could count, scars tracing over scars across every visible inch of it, old wounds layered over older ones like the whole massive body had spent centuries being hurt and healing wrong and being hurt again.
It was breathing. Slow, deep, each breath moving mountains of muscle beneath the chains.
*This isn't the Mad Wolf inside me,* Caierre understood, the realization arriving with a cold, vertiginous certainty. *This is something else. Something older.*
"That," the king's voice said, quiet with old reverence, "is the First Wolf. The one your curse was born from. Not a copy. Not an echo carried down through genera
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