My Cheating Mate
My Cheating Mate
Jeremy pov
They came at 3 AM.
Not the slow, organized assault we'd anticipated. The Council hit simultaneously from four directions—north, south, east, and west—with forces significantly larger than our intelligence had suggested. Either they'd hidden reserves we hadn't known about, or they'd consolidated aligned territories faster than Cas had predicted.
Either way, we were outnumbered.
The alarms went off at 3:04 AM. By 3:06, wolves and vampires were in position. By 3:07, the first wave hit the northern perimeter and the world became blood and noise and chaos.