The Alpha's World Claimed Me
I exhaled, my breath coming in heavy, jagged rasps.
My palms pressed into the dirt, and that’s when I realized the fall had been an illusion. I looked around, seeing my men stirring with the same ragged, panicked breathing, their eyes wide as if they, too, had just escaped a great height.
But how was I on the floor and just waking up? I looked frantically toward the patch of grass where I had laid Novel down before the darkness took me. She wasn't there. A cold dread began to settle in my gut, made worse by the fact that the landscape didn't even look the same. The sun was now high and harsh, its full heat beating down on us from the center of the sky.