Chapter 27: "Hide.”

I wait until it’s midnight before heading into the woods.

My door is firmly locked when I leave the room and I let Fenrir confirm the presence of every wolf in the packhouse.

All the wolves in my pack are linked to me in one way or the other. The proximity between us makes it easier to sense them, and since I am the Alpha, accounting for their presence is also my job. The small ripple of power flows out from me and in one brief moment, I see the bonds that link us all together.

They stretch out from my heart like strange tentacles, little threads packed at one compact point in my chest and going out into the distance. Each thread has an iron like sheen to it. That is what makes me the Alpha of the Ironclaw pack and them wolves of the Ironclaw pack.

This connection that we have, the way I am linked to them, and they are linked to me.

Each wolf is accounted for before I slip out through a window in the art room.

Scarlett’s scent invades my nostrils and the fact that she’s in here