The Hunter and The Beast

A howl split the night, echoing out it's pain. I knew what the howl meant. It meant the other Hunters were here. Soon the pack's Alpha would emerge to fight the oncoming threat. That was if I failed and didn't reach him first.
I approached his bedroom, my father flanking me, and tightened my fingers around the hilt of my dagger. My hand was steady despite the storm brewing beneath my breast bone. Could I really do this? Could I really betray everything I knew?
I took a deep breath and opened the door.
He stood there, in the middle of the room, as if he'd been waiting for me, and maybe he had. Maybe he'd expected this.
His eyes meet mine almost instantly. "Hello Tamara."
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Tamara Wolfe was a Hunter. She grew up learning how to track and kill Lycans, creatures that plagued the Earth and could shift from two forms. For as long as Tamara could remember she'd longed to leave the compound and go out on a mission. And, for as long as Tamara could remember, her father had kept locked behind the walls that protected her people.
One night everything changed. Tamara snuck out of the compound to go on a supposedly simple mission. Something had gone horrible wrong. Now, in the grasp of one of the most powerful Lycans, Tamara must find a way to escape and return to the compound before it's too late but she'll find that destiny is a hard thing to run away from.