Chapter 12: Wolves in the Shadows
Lily Carter POV
A rock broke the nursery window and glass flew all over the place. As the shards fell around us, I threw myself over little Emma to protect her.
"Everyone under the tables!" My heart was pounding so hard that I screamed.
The dogs hid under some wooden tables while I looked at Emma’s scared face for cuts. I rushed her to safety with the others when I couldn’t find any.
Outside, people were getting more angry.
"The omega witch can’t have our pups!"
"Send her back to the lowest dens where she belongs!"
I looked in through the broken window. At least twenty wolves stood in the open, faces twisted with anger. Some held rocks, others waved sticks. My stomach turned to ice.
Yesterday’s theft had terrified the pack. All twelve missing pups had been found shivering in a cave three miles from our area, abandoned by the masked dogs who’d taken them. The pups were safe but scared, remembering only bone-faced wolves who’d whispered about "the Triple Moon child."
Now everyone blamed me.
"Stay here," I told the five pups who’d been brave enough to return to the nursery today. "Don’t move until I come back."