KAEL POINT OF VIEW

“Break the inner doors.”

My voice cut clean through the chaos of the courtyard.

Moonfang wolves surged forward instantly, claws slamming against the heavy wooden gates that guarded Shadowfang’s royal home. The structure loomed above us, stone walls etched with centuries of Alpha lineage, banners hanging dark in the night wind.

Thorne’s banners.

I watched them for half a second too long.

Then the doors splintered.

Wood cracked beneath repeated blows until the ...