Damon
I felt her before I saw her.
The presence slammed into my senses like a wall of pressure, so immense and suffocating that my legs nearly buckled beneath me. Every wolf around me stiffened simultaneously, ears flattening, bodies dropping lower to the ground in instinctive submission.
This couldn't be right.
No single wolf carried this much power. Not even Lady Palisa, who stood at the center of our formation with her massive form coiled and alert.
Our Supreme Alpha's voice cut through the mind link, and the excitement in it made my stomach turn.
"She is coming."
Three words. Delivered with the barely contained glee of a predator who had just heard its prey step into the trap.
I swallowed hard, my mouth suddenly dry.
Why was Lady Palisa not at the very least bothered about this?! I knew she was powerful, and she might as well be more skilled and experienced than Violet, but that raw power did not seem to shake her one bit.
