Bride of the Human Alpha
target, made myself the loudest, most visible thing in Mordecai's territory and trusted my team to use the gap I was creating. Mordecai thought I was a berserker wolf, and I was going to play it to the max. I’d counted thirty-eight guards in my initial sweep, and I’d already plowed through twelve of them. The numbers were workable. Then the northern tower's door opened, and Mordecai stepped out. I had seen him before, at the Council hearing months ago. He'd been a large man then. He was larger now, carrying the particular density of someone who had spent years cultivating power at the expense of everything else. He wore no weapon. He didn't shift. He simply looked at the wolf standing in th