The Alpha’s Heat
Their howls shifted from war cries into hymns.
And all of it coursed through me first.
I screamed as their essence bone, blood, soul flooded my veins. My body burned too small to hold it. My heart felt like it would rupture.
Eva sighed, blissful, drunk on the power I funneled into her. “Do you feel it, Eliara? We are eternity.”
Kael’s roar broke through the storm. “No!”
He ripped through three shadow-wolves, tearing them to ribbons, and threw himself at me. His claws dug into my shoulders, shaking me. “Listen to me! If she takes them, she becomes a god. If you don’t cut the bond, we lose everything.”