**Alpha Erik** My pack and I had to fall back. I had not expected that such power would come out of Maia. I had never heard of, let alone seen a wolf separate herself from her wolf-like that. It was astounding to watch, to be able to witness something so extraordinary happen in front of my very eyes. When Maia attacked me, I was at a loss for words. The girl knew to handle her own. She gave me a nasty bite that was now extremely infected. It would take a good three days to suck all the toxins out from the infection. Things may have not gone the way I had planned them, but I was able to gather some useful information. For example, the fact that it was easy to spot that Zavia had found her mat

