*Kane*

I was almost there.

I had almost made it to where Emory was confronting her father. I could see her in the distance as I sprinted across the grass, not even slowing as I passed the line of my own troops that had been standing back, watching.

“What is she doing?” I’d screamed aloud to no one. Why had Rainer allowed her to get so far ahead of him? I see my friend dodging forward now, coming up behind me, but it’s too fucking late!

Emory falls backward, the slash of a wolf’s claws ripping through her abdomen as blood sprays across his face.

I am there before she...