Chapter 71

*Lyra*

I stood frozen, the scream still caught in my throat, my heart pounding so hard I could barely hear the rustling over the roar of my pulse. Something—or someone—was coming closer, and I had nowhere to go. Nowhere to run.

And then, from the shadows, a massive wolf emerged.

My stomach twisted into knots, my mind screaming for me to run, but my legs wouldn’t move. The wolf was enormous, larger