Chapter 77

Jacob’s POV

I once again looked at the corpse, it was shredded into pieces. It’s skull was crushed, bones torn apart and cracked. There was blood everywhere, from the ground up to the trees. The body was divided into four pieces and the head was retrieved up the branch of a tree.

“Please forgive me, Alpha Jacob.” said Jordan. One of the council, head of trackers that also conduct the investigation. “I failed to distinguish the entity of the corpse, Alpha.” he bowed and the rest of his team bowed as well.

There was no question to why they failed. The core of the corpse was gone, making it hard to distinguish it. Without the core—its heart—a werewolf wouldn’t shift back to human. No one would know if it was a werewolf or a forest wolf.

But I knew.

The moment I arrived, the air whispered to my ears. The smell of death lingered in my nose. And the howl of a werewolf called my Alpha wolf.

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