Chapter 275

The closer we get to the address where Karolina is situated, the more my wolf becomes agitated. I shift restlessly in the front seat of the SUV, wondering what’s going on with her.

It’s like she’s on high alert. Like we’re somehow trapped, or there’s some unseen danger, and we should be fleeing in the other direction.

I can tell James is also feeling similarly troubled as he parks the SUV just down the block from the abandoned house.

James had been right about this neighborhood.

Every house is in a sad, neglected state. Sagging roofs, broken windows, junk in the weed-choked yards and broken down, rusted cars.

Only some of the houses look like they’re even occupied. A lot of the houses look like they’ve been abandoned.

“Why is my wolf so-”

“Freaked out?” James finishes with a quick smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. “You should trust what she’s telling you, there’s danger nearby.”

“What do you mean?” I ask apprehensively.

That prickly leeling

there are Vampires somewhere nearby. We need to get in and out as fast as possible, before they realize wolves have wandered right into their territory.”

I nod and swallow down the dread, checking my weapons before we get out of the SUV.

Despite the fear and the way my wolf is clawing at my insides to get out of here, I’m not going to back down.

stories from other wolves who’ve either narrowly

joke. They hate wolves for the simple fact of our existence, and if they ever

mercy.

entire packs being wiped

strong, but mortal.

it’s nigh on impossible to

here-most likely the AI tech-otherwise why risk

and I hurry down the block

to every step we take, scanning my surroundings, scenting the air, my senses running

they ever have.

my veins like fire. But the reason for it-the

we approach the house, I almost expect to find Council Enforcer

big risk coming

she possibly be up to that she’d

the

I don’t hear anything but the sound of water running somewhere deeper in the

general gross decay, so

of Karolina over all that, but the stronger

quick glance of acknowledgement, before we start

as if she’s doing some boring task, and absentmindedly filling in

me

body like a livewire, lighting up every cell of me, but

It doesn’t make sense.

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