Chapter 26

I ignore his mental pleas coming at me desperately, struggling to breathe as I break into a super run and try to put distance between us. Sprinting and then hitting full stride, I quickly skim over the landscape and clear fallen trees. Caught in my need to flee and focused on nothing else. Reverting to all fours as my body aches to transform and set me free, I rein it in and shake it out of my head. I don’t want to be in wolf form when this distraught. That kind of loss of control can be devastating and forbidden. I run with blurry vision, washed almost blind with my tears, and gasp when I’m suddenly yanked back, mid-jump, and hauled backward to tumble into a mossy patch in the forest floor with a thud, to roll and land on all fours and instantly bristle defensively. Breathing heavily as I square up to my pursuer aggressively, a new feral kind of instinct I’ve never felt before, full-on fierce triggered. I calm instantly when faced with Colton, his eyes glowing amber and equally poised