The Alpha I shouldn't crave
In the next second it blurred, moving faster than should have been possible, a streak of black and red that demolished the basement window in an explosion of glass and wood.
The night air rushed in through the opening, carrying the wolf's scent away, and then it was gone, disappeared into the forest like it had never existed.
Vanessa shifted back to human, her naked body covered in bruises and bite marks, she crawled over to where I lay still in wolf form.
"Shift back," she ordered, her hands already glowing with healing light. "Let me see the damage."
I obeyed, gritting my teeth against the agony of broken bones realigning, and looked up at her with a question I already knew the answer to.