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The smell was like a punch in the stomach. An explosion of sensations invaded Nolan's body the moment the aroma hit his nostrils. Strawberry, chocolate, mint and forest - sweet, fresh and wild at the same time. Thunder, his inner wolf, roared in his mind, driven mad by the scent trail. He tried to resist, tried to hold on to control, but it was like trying to contain a hurricane with his bare hands.

“No!” shouted Nolan inside his own head, trying to contain the wolf. “Not now! This can't be happening.”

But Thunder was beside himself, scratching the earth furiously, as if he could open a hole and materialize right at the source of that smell. Nolan knew where they were going. He knew that path, every tree, every branch. The trail led straight to Owen's house.

A knot formed in his throat.

The house of the man he called uncle. His father's best friend. Owen, the former alpha who had been destroyed by a human. And that morning, Nolan had heard the buzz going through the pack link - Owen's
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