WOLVES IN THE SHADOW

t her afterward, her arms, her legs, anywhere the rogues had struck her. But there was nothing. Just

led lovely, fresh, and filled with the small scent of leather and flowers-Dane's qu

as sh

's arms after the rogue attack. She had been hurt, badly. She had felt the big c

w... n

where she had been struck. She felt nothing but her smo

beating fast. Th

r sounded as it opened, and Dane walked in. His sharp eyes went straight to her a

ce low but filled with somet

ttered. "I wa

around the room, his movements careful. He wasn't looking at her like h

ly, his voice quieter now

head. "That's

ough his dark hair. "We don't kn

nd what he said then another pre

ble, but his sharp eyes filled with somet

mentioned bluntly. "No normal

"I don't know what's happenin

d. "That's t

tepping in the middle of

umorless chuck

se-anger. Dane's anger. She shouldn't have been able

s she b

ike she was the most dangerous thing she had ever encountered. Not with D

wasn't going to find them

the night,

light like it was without any stress. She had no plan, only her feelings. And

st random. There was a pattern. Mir

ime it felt different, she was hearing people discussing even when they seemed pretty far from her location, and she perceived the scent of fresh

as ch

the missing person cases before, but now, standing outside one of the l

nce that anything violent happened. Just...emptines

oser. Then sh

Rusty. The scent was

oo

cent down a small alleyway. The deeper she went,

small soun

figure jumped from the sh

d with surprise at her attack. The attacker's claws missed her throat whi

gu

The force sent him flying to the nearby wall. But before she

No, t

een waitin

her chest. She was ou

.. she shoul

e moved her body to the side, grabbed his arm, and-w

act was

me to understand his reason before another attack came, a bla

wa

gth was unnatural. Her movements weren't only fast; they were done based on

he ha

urned and disappeared into the shadows of the night, they

a serious gasp while she looked at hersel

, trained werewolves. And she didn't e

fingers still in fist form. Something

sn't n

.. she h

she be