The Alpha's Prickly Porcupine
The terrifying reality of her words hangs over the courtyard like a falling axe, cutting through the lingering smoke of the battle and replacing our brief, hard-won victory with a desperate, unforgiving ticking clock.
Twenty-four hours is all we have before the man I love, the pack's steadfast protector and my emotional anchor, is permanently erased and replaced by a raving creature of syndicate design, plunging our entire dominion into a succession crisis and an era of unspeakable darkness from which we could never recover. I refuse to lose my mate to this twisted shadow war, so I stand tall amidst the ruins, pushing down the overwhelming panic threatening to consume my mind, and command Sh