The Last Howl
a voice suddenly cut through the heavy silence.
It wasn't loud, but the calm, iron-hard resonance in it made every head in the room snap upward.
Alexander stood in the frame of the doorway, his broad frame framed by the dim hallway light. The raw vulnerability I had glimpsed in his silver eyes moments ago was gone, replaced once again by the lethal, calculating intensity of the Prince of the Royal Pack.
"Missing what?" Jill snapped bitterly, his back pressed against the bookshelf. "You heard the radio, Alexander! Every major city is gone! Municipalities collapsed, military recalled, no safe zones! What part of 'total annihilation' did you fail to understand?"