Chapter 56: The Unburied King
The howl didn't just break the silence. It broke the vampires' morale.
Victor stood up.
He looked like a monster risen from a nightmare. He was caked in grave dirt. His skin was blue-grey from oxygen deprivation. His clothes were shredded.
But his eyes...
His eyes were burning with a gold fire so intense it looked like molten metal.
The vampires at the tree line hesitated. They had sensed his death. They knew he had stopped breathing. Seeing him stand was impossible.
Victor didn't give them time to process the miracle.
He didn't speak. He didn't check on me. He turned toward the army that had tried to bury him.
CRACK.
The sound of his shifting was violent. Bones snapped and realigned in seconds.
Where there had been a man, now stood a wolf of terrif
