CLAW MARKS ON LANE NINE

ne in my own

and unhurried, like someone who had been waiting

t

was sitting on the cold concrete. "I'm losing my mind," I whispe

ange. You are l

oice raised every hair on

your wolf. You ju

y n

her voice had gone careful. Not h

a drum. I could hear the crowd draining out of the stadium above me, hundreds of footsteps, hundre

dark crust, and when I rolled my ankle, it moved without a sing

d you do

I swear she sounded amused.

uick. I knew them before I saw her. Sienna Mar

ack behind her, still wearing her gold medal. "Well

pushed myself up the

ple say things meant to cut. "Now you can stop pretending you belong. Ei

is had taught me exactly what to do, which was to sw

ed up

gain," I sa

ser and shoved my shoulder, hard, the w

I caught

think, and closed around her arm. My fingers were burning hot

m somewhere deeper, a thin, frightened sound that I fel

" she wh

bing her wrist, staring at me li

ice shook. "Come on." She dragged h

murmured. Not w

the tunnel, slow and heavy and measured. I knew these, too. Ronan Hal

ps away. "The Alpha has ordered yo

ped. "Dawn? Tha

what h

I suppos

king at me when he said it. His eyes kept flicki

ed on mine and

l. "Your eyes," he s

about

, and I realized he looked less like a Beta and more like

e who was afraid. I straigh

. "Next year's Alpha's Cup, I'll be

peated, and then he turned and

r of us would sleep tonight. But I wasn't going to crawl out of this pack the way they expected. If I

arm and satisfied beneath my ribs. For the first time in my life, I

corridor, sharp and clear, bec

gh, from behind a door at

e else see

," Ronan

"If the council finds out what she is, th

ped br

d, and for the first time