Chapter 12

perimeter. Everyone in this pack from the Alpha down to the lowest pack member must take a turn at patrolling

the property. We’re in an isolated area and his pack owns

hundreds of square miles of property with the whole western.

side flanking a state park, but we can never be too sure.

Humans are everywhere.

And so are enemy wolves.

I can’t shift and run the way the rest of the wolves here do, but I know the game trails well enough.

The fresh air fills my lungs carrying the scent of spring and fresh rain and lilacs. Those were my mother’s favorites, and I

planted them all around the main house.

Before I cut onto the southern trail, I turn back to the mansion.

It sits like a behemoth on the hillside, and in the distance

are rows and rows of neat little houses and cabins. Some

two hundred families live and work in this area and the

surrounding countryside. I wasn’t born here, but it feels like

home.

of the

Maybe.

My dad

inquire after me. I turned over every

and saved in

a confirmation

My stomach sinks.

to stop feeling sorry for

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forest and the scents change.

must be to smell the pine

my own wolf so I could sense

better. To see and smell and taste and feel

to the

used to run these trails. I’d run as fast and

was gasping for breath and

I walk now.

Slowly.

up at the breaks in the canopy where the

circle of life that

mansion when I hear

heavy, fast beat of

An Alpha’s

of gray is familiar.

a huge wolf.

with darker

He runs until he’s even

and then an inquisitive twist of his head, his wolf’s expression of

rail about Jessica. To demand

him an out when all he can do is bark or growl or

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