Megan POV

“It’s them,” I say. “I recognize that howl from when they captured me before. It’s them. It’s their pack.”

I panic. Did Kael set me up? Is that why they’re coming? Did I put myself and Ben in danger because I was blinded to the kind of person Kael is?

“Maybe they’re not after us,” Ben says, though his voice is hitched in worry. He scans the trees around us.

It’s all too clear they’re coming, though. The howls are getting closer. They will find us, and who knows what they will do to us now.

“Hide,” Ben orders in a low voice. “I’ll distract them. You hide.”...