Kessal’s POV:
I don’t know exactly when I felt the pull start. One minute I’d been playing around with Braeden, our wolves fighting finally returning to full strength from the moonstone power damage a few days before, and the next Alex howled in my head, a low mournful sound that tears at me. Whining a word urgently.
Mate, sad. Mate needs us. Now. Halting in what I’d been doing, I’m almost knocked off my feet when I got an image of my Kalli sitting in a small dark alcove with her cousin, tears streaming down her face. Sitting with her knees drawn into her chest, hands around them the images of her parents, aunt and uncle’s deaths played on a loop inside her tortured mind like a broken record. Mate needs us, Alex reminds me soberly and I nod, shaking off my fur and taking off, surrenderin
