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- Boys! Allora jumped between us. I stopped, pulling my wolf back just as he threatened to explode. - Stop it. Caleb, Josh couldn't have destroyed the paintings. He was with me at the time. We were in town.

- It saw? “I looked at Caleb.

“But, Josh, I don't think Caleb did it either,” Allora spoke directly to me. “It doesn't make any sense. His whole purpose here is to establish his own pack. How can he do that when he destroys the only evidence of his claim to this place? Or when he has cops swarming all over the woods?

"Well then, who else did this?" I demanded.

“It was the other wolf,” Caleb whispered. “The black wolf.

“I thought we established that the black wolf couldn't exist.

"No," Caleb snapped. “You established that because you're too desperate to believe I'm the culprit here. I know the black wolf exists because I've seen it with my own eyes. His scent is all over the cave.

"You mean your smell."

“I don't need to hear that shit. Caleb fell forward and, with a snap, the spine