The Alpha's Abandoned Mate
“It’s the men hiding inside them.”
Below them, the border village slept, the roofs coated in pale moonlight, the chimneys giving off thin spirals of smoke. Children curled against their mothers. Merchants slept with their ledgers under their pillows. Wolves, in human or fur, tucked into their dens believing the night was safe.
The danger arrived three heartbeats later.
A sharp whistle cut through the silence.
The watchman straightened. “Did you, ”
Arrows rained from the treeline.
A scream cracked open the night as the first guard toppled backward, an arrow lodged in his throat. The young watchman spun, reaching for the bell rope, but another arrow sank into his chest before he could pull it.
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