In all truth, I had already accepted my fate. If this was how things were going to go then so be it. I had made peace with it. What had not crossed my mind was that someone was going to step in between life and death at the last moment.
My eyes widened as I saw my father’s huge, silver wolf. In his amber eyes, I could see he was enraged. When the bullet finally landed, it pierced my father’s hind leg, but his anger was too much that he did not seem to notice.
All around us, hunters and wolves alike stopped fighting to see what was going on. Their eyes widened as they took in the largest wolf in the territory. My father did not break our eye contact until the territory was completely silent.
“Father,” I began to say through the pack link. I scanned my father’s wound; it was bleeding he
