Asher

Liam raises his hands in defense, with a tense posture as he senses my wolf. Kaidos growls low and menacingly in my head, demanding to be unleashed.

“Why do I fucking care, Liam? Really?” I seethe, my voice barely contained with rage. “That’s a human lying in there, stabbed and bleeding out. She doesn’t have a wolf to heal her like us.”

I take a step closer, my every movement deliberate and charged with fury. Liam instinctively steps back, his eyes darting between me and the door behind him.

“And you ask why I care?” My voice drops into a dangerous snarl, echoing with the power of my alpha...