Chapter 18 Rae's Pov · The Border Battlefield
- Flames flickered across the border between our pack and the enemy, the air thick with blood, smoke, and the cries of the dying. Every scream was a blade, stabbing straight into my chest.
- Inside me, my wolf Lucy growled low. “Danger. Fall back.”
- But I didn’t retreat. The medical tent had already been blown apart. I knelt beneath a makeshift shelter, hands trembling with blood.