THE SECRET GAME OF LOVE
And as the full moon began to rise over the jagged treeline, casting a bright, silvery glow through the high, reinforced windows, Apollo’s instincts surged.
The toddler walked slowly toward the massive front window, his small hands pressing flat against the double-paned polymer glass. He looked up at the pale orb hanging in the night sky, his body shivering slightly as the primal call of his alpha bloodline demanded expression.
He tilted his head back, opening his jaw, and let loose a sound that shook the very dust from the high iron rafters.
It was a clear, resonant, mathematically perfect alpha howl. It carried no trace of human infancy, it was the pure, ringing voice of a wild predator cl