ALPHA TOPH

 

Gone. The woman I had locked in the cellar was gone!

How had a merchant’s daughter managed to break through the reinforced iron of the castle’s keep? It was remarkable. 

“Raya? Bloody hell woman, Are you in here?” I screamed, whirling on my haunches to peer about the room with my wolf’s vision, but she was truly gone.

I threw my head back and let out a loud roaring howl, hearing the guards rush into the cellar and dance about the room, the tension in their coiled spring of bodies sending shivers of delight through my frame until I was unable to hold it in anymore.

“Raya Banks,...