Maya didn’t f*****g stop. Her palms burned, fingers cramping around the reins as she cracked them hard against the horses’ slick, steaming backs.
Their hooves pounded the muddy road, rocks spitting beneath their iron shoes, as she hissed to herself, “Faster, damn it, faster.”
Her wolf howled inside her, bloodlust and panic twisting together in a maddening spiral.
She didn’t even feel the rain soaking her hair, making it stick to her face, didn’t notice the tears slipping down her cheeks as wind slapped her skin raw. The forest around them blurred, darkness pierced by the glow of the moon, leaves tearing as the carriage plowed through branches.
Then she turned, heart slamming into her throat.
Alpha Logan.
Not in human form. His massive wolf was a shadowy beast under the moonlight, b
