Primal Pursuit

Darius’s POV

Something was very wrong here.

Valerie wasn’t listening to me anymore. I tried howling for her, to get her to respond, but she didn’t.

Far too late, I realized my mistake. Valerie had never learned to work together with her wolf, something children were trained for since a young age. Since she was an adult, and such a strong-willed one at that, it hadn’t occurred to me that the call o