That afternoon I checked out of the cabin and drove the Jeep until I found a spot alongside the highway where I could park. I hoped that it would go unnoticed since this area wasn’t so populous. I waited until nightfall and left my clothes in the boot.I hid the key and then changed into my wolf. I started running and crossed the icy river and shook the water from my fur. I alternated between trotting and walking for about eight miles and it took me two hours over the rough terrain.The mountain loomed in front of me but I kept going. The gravity was getting stronger. I could feel it moving through the air. Montgomery had described Wolf Peak as a place of ancestral powers where the more powerful wolves had all gone to either die or heal spiritually.You’ll know that you’ve reached Wolf Peak, when the Northern Lights dance around you and your spirit fills with the power and magic of the experience. I looked around me in wonder and amazement as it seemed that I was part of the lights an

Adrian Peters had returned to full duty after passing his medical evaluation two days earlier. He drove home and unlocked the front door and paused in the doorway. The house felt disturbed. There was a glass on the coffee table that he was sure he hadn’t left there.He stepped further into his living room and thought he heard a floorboard creak. It was the one at the end of the hall, near the bathroom. Adrian took out his gun and softly closed the front door behind him. He crept towards the hallway and almost fired his gun when he saw the man standing there in front of him.“Adrian! Nice house you have here.”Adrian stared at him in disbelief. “Uncle Igor? How did you get out?”Igor shrugged with just a hint of a smile on his lips and walked towards Adrian. “I slow my heart rate, I can’t be wolf, but I have certain traits they have. They think I’m dead, they take all prisoners to crematorium. One man, I knew him from long ago, we burn some assistant in my place. I come here. You have

Malachi paced up and down in front of the sliding doors in his house. He had already sent all the pack members to the den. It was the safest place for them to be. Thirty minutes earlier his house had been bursting at the seams with activity. Everyone had gathered and they had held a quick meeting while everyone loaded up their cars and trucks with food, water and blankets.He had no idea how long they might have to stay in the den. Carl and Frank had refused to leave his side, as it was supposed to be. A Zeta would never leave his Alpha, even under the direst of circumstances. He had stood silently in the living room and had listened. It had been too noisy earlier and now he concentrated, sure the whispers from earlier hadn’t been his imagination.He heard faint whispering again and he concentrated harder. He heard Adrian and another man, they were in the woods, watching him. He took out his phone and continued pacing all the while listening to their plans. They intended to end the pa

The police had come back to the hotel to question Malachi about the dead headless body in our house, never mind the fact that it was covered in bullet holes.“Officer, I’ve already told you. I wasn’t there, I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Malachi’s face remained impassive and Carl and Frank had already written statements supporting Malachi’s story.“Why would anyone want to destroy your house?” Officer Michaels looked at Malachi through narrowed eyes and I could see the suspicion as he looked at us.“Probably for the same reason that they blew up the warehouse,” Malachi said and kept to his story, no matter how many times the officer tried to ask it differently.“Where were you, Kiran?” The officer turned his attention to me.“I was here at the hotel, getting extra blankets for our hiking trip,” I replied innocently. It wasn’t the truth but there was nothing else I could tell him. I could see that they weren’t entirely satisfied but that was as far as they would get into th

We stood in the clearing under the moonlight, the bodies laid out in front of us. Richard went through the ceremonial questions and each family stepped up to perform their incisions and set the spirits of their loved ones free.Malachi had stepped up to perform the ceremony for the families that had nobody else and I shared all our pain with him. The children were the worst. The tears were rolling down his cheeks freely and he didn’t care who saw him crying. It was an emotional night for all of us.Malachi took over the ceremony when it was Richard’s turn to set his wife free. I had started crying with Malachi, I couldn’t control my emotions as I looked at him and saw the pain he was in. Richard was also crying as he took her heart from her chest and let the moonlight envelope it.It was the worst night in our pack’s history and I thought back to how it had all begun, that first time I had sensed Death. Was it a blessing as my grandmother had said or would this turn into my curse? I d