Monsters Recognize Monsters

Caius's POV

(Years Later)

Power changes how people look at you.

As a boy, they looked at me like I was dangerous.

As a man, they looked at me like I was necessary.

Alpha Caius.

War leader.

Executioner.

The wolf who never hesitated.

They never knew the truth—that I was still that terrified boy by the river, scrubbing blood from his hands and begging the night to swallow him whol