Chapter 48 I Found You

• Alaric’s heavy paws crushed branches and leaves as if the ground was nothing beneath him. The forest blurred around him, just streaks of green and gray. Cold dawn air clawed at his fur-covered body, but he felt nothing — nothing except the wild, absolute instinct driving him forward.
• Every step was led by Eulalia’s scent. But it wasn’t just fear he smelled now. It was pain.
• A pain so raw it seared his chest like burning coals.