Aiden POV
The emergency radio crackled to life at exactly 3:47 AM, jerking me awake from the first good sleep I'd had in weeks.
"Alpha Aiden, urgent message from the Northern Territories," came the panicked voice of our border guard. "You need to hear this now."
I grabbed the radio, my heart already racing. Nothing good ever came through emergency lines at this hour.
"Go ahead, Marcus," I said, trying to keep my voice steady.
"Sir, we just got reports from twelve different packs across North America. They're all reporting the same thing - strange tears in the air that show... other places. And sir, they're all happening near places where powerful magic was recently used."
My blood turned cold. Lily's sacrifice to break the shadow wolves' memory spell had used incredible amounts of old magic. Magic that strong always had effects.
"How many tears?" I asked, already pulling on clothes.
