The Price Of Fate
Something that smelled like the barrier itself, like burned stone and cold metal and storms trapped inside a wound.
Around me, Vandwood shifted in a wave. My father’s wolf, solid black, massive, Alpha-made, hit the ground with a sound like a tree trunk falling. His hackles rose, and his eyes went bright with command as he paced forward. Beta Marlow shifted on my father’s right, his wolf a dark brown with a scar down one shoulder. The Gamma, a broad-shouldered grey wolf, fell into position behind them, flanked by a dozen warriors, all different colours and sizes but moving as one pack. And then my mother, Luna Ingrid’s wolf was sleek and silver-grey, her fur too beautiful for battle, but her