(There are two POVs in this chapter. The first person is Declan. The second person is Vince.)

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Our howling reverberated through the woods as we clawed and knocked down each other. We were in our wolf forms, sparring in the middle of the woods, under the smoky evening and dimly moonlit sky.

Beck’s wolf was a huge, gray animal with furs sticking out like thongs. He had the wild reddish fangs peculiar to rogues. Mine was a deep black animal, huge, with furs slicked to my skin. My fangs were ...