Chapter 174. Smoke and Mirrors

Adeline POV

The dark figures grow taller, swirling rapidly as they join into a black, smoke-like circle. It’s like the air gets knocked out of my chest as I struggle not to panic behind the tree. I struggle to still my breathing; one little move and they’ll hear me. Their power is something far beyond the limitations of the werewolf kind, heavy and suffocating. Why are they interested in Midnight Moon? Why do they give a shit about Alpha Jaxon and Beta Don? My mind reels to my mate. What if something happens to him? The father of my unborn child? I have to do something; I can’t sit by and watch my mate get slaughtered by a magic so fierce, so powerful that it could drive our entire species to extinction.

Swallowing hard, I try to focus my hearing on the hushed whispers from the shadows. The murmurs are so low that it makes them inaudible against the wind. I get the feeling that