First message
The scent hit me first—ozone and choir-song, clinging to the damp city air like a stain. Angel. Not some low-tier messenger, either. This was old power, crisp and cold. My gums ached, the wolf stirring with a hot, eager hate. From the rooftop edge, I watched him descend, all six wings and that serene, empty face. Just like the one who burned my first pack. He didn’t even look at the bait, the spitting human with his cursed insults. Good. Let him think this is about petty blasphemy. My eyes, gold now, cut to the warehouse. She was in there, the little cherub, bound in silver-etched chains. His sister, if my sources were right. A slow smile spread, all teeth. Let the princely bastard have his moment of disdain. Soon, he’d learn a new feeling. The kind that comes when something you love is in the jaws of a wolf. My hunt was about to get very, very personal.
She flinched, her wide eyes reflecting the faint glow of my own. No fear of the dark, but a perfect, crystalline terror of me. Good. I leaned in close, my voice a low rasp that swallowed the distant sound of her brother’s confrontation outside. The scent of her divinity was a sweet, maddening perfume. “The big flame outside?” I murmured, letting a silver-clawed fingertip trace the air beside her cheeknot touching, just letting the poison of it prickle her skin. He’s about to have a very bad day. And you… I finally closed my hand, not roughly, but with an inescapable finality are coming with me, angel