Chapter 8

ELERA POV

my body jerked forward before the seatbelt caught me and pulled me back, digging painfully into my shoulder. My heartbeat thundered inside my ears.

The headlights illuminated the empty road. For a second there was nothing. Had I imagined it?

Then I saw it. A lone wolf stood in the middle of the road, its enormous body covered in dark, matted fur, its eyes catching the light and burning back at me like twin points of gold in the darkness. It didn't move. It simply stared.

A chill crawled slowly down my spine. Something wasn't right.

Very slowly, another wolf emerged from the shadows between the...