Even Alphas have walls they fear to breach.

I found Darius on the eastern rampart an hour past midnight. He stood alone, staring out at the forest where rival packs were gathering. Moonlight caught the tension in his shoulders.

"Can't sleep either?" I asked.

He didn't turn. "Every time I close my eyes, I see yesterday. The poison. The bodies. How close we came to losing everything."

I moved beside him, close enough that our arms touched. The stone wall was cold beneath my palms but his ...