Their heads snapped toward where their allies should have been sidelined.
The sight that greeted them made their bodies go rigid, horror washing over their face.
Their allies had vanished!
The alpha's pack — the wolves that had always answered his call without hesitation — were nowhere to be seen.
The boss's herd — the very family she commanded with her strength and instincts — had vanished without a single trace.
It was as if they had all been erased from existence, devoured by something they didn't even sense until it was already too late.
Lanz immediately dropped low, pressing himself against the ground to avoid the alpha's gaze that was sweeping in his direction, since this was the very spot where its pack had been stationed.
His movements were sharp and cautious, his mind racing with the awareness that one wrong twitch would expose him.
Across the clearing, the boss and the alpha stood frozen.
