The courtyard reeked of sweat, sex, and signed stone.

The entire pack was gathered hundreds of them, bare-chested, panting, trembling under the weight of my bond. They were bound to me now, every wolf, every beta, every alpha. They felt my pulse in their veins. My heat, my hunger, my fire.

Kael stood at my side, his eyes sharp, arms crossed as he watched. He hadn’t stopped glaring at anyone who dared look at me too long. He was Alpha to them. But I was something else.

Something more.

I ...