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They could be dragons for all she knew.
“Tell them to leave,” Cadence said in a bored tone. “This is between us, right? You want to challenge me for Kru? You want me to fight for a man who is already mine?”
Fury washed through Sasha’s gaze. “He isn’t yours,” she snarled.
Keep her talking.
Cadence swallowed down her fury and asked, “What will you do if you beat me?”
“When,” Sasha murmured with such confidence. “When I beat you.”
Cadence waited.
“Kru just needs you out of his head, and then he can be brought back in line. I’m ready to breed now. I am his only chance at guaranteeing saber-toothed offspring.”
“Sounds scientific and boring, like you. Maybe he picked me because I’m enjoyable to fuck.”
Cadence couldn’t help her smile at the fury that overcame the woman’s facial features.
Her phone was going insane right now, vibrating off the hook. It fell off the table with the vibration. She hoped to hell help was on the way.
“Make it fair,” she said. “Call your Crew off. It’s me and you, right? I’m the threat?” She jutted her chin at the men. “Have some honor, and piss off.”
The one closest to Sasha shook his head slowly. “We owe favors.”
“You gonna kill me?” she asked. “Get rid of the problem?”
His eyes cooled and he nodded.
Cadence was disgusted. What a pitiful Crew. She knew without a shadow of a doubt the Warlanders would never hunt a lone female like this.
Outside, a roar rattled the trees, and gooseflesh lifted on her skin. She hadn’t heard that war cry before, but she knew exactly who it was.
Landon had warned Willamena Barns—Almost Alpha of the Gray Backs, harborer of the beast grizzly, Turned by Beaston himself—and these motherfuckers had no idea what they had stepped into.
A second roar, deeper and louder, shook the ground beneath her feet.
A slow smile took her lips.
That would be Landon Fuller, son of the Cursed Bear. He hadn’t run after all. They were going to buy her time until her Crew could get here.
“You’re so fucked,” she snarled as she strode for Sasha, rage consuming her.
“There’s ten more outside,” Sasha growled, but Cadence was too close to Changing to care. She would fight anyone when her blood was boiling like this.
Sasha’s bones popped and snapped as she Changed.
LET ME OUT! her tiger roared as she kicked into a run. Her body broke and she pitched forward on all fours as the animal took her body.
She’d expected Sasha’s saber-toothed tiger to be bigger, like Kru’s, but she wasn’t much bigger than Cadence. Perhaps females were smaller. Cadence’s white tiger didn’t care if she was the size of a dinosaur, she wanted to kill this woman.
Sasha’s tiger had a tan coat and looked like a large lioness, except for the faint tiger stripes in her coat and the footlong canines that curved down her jaw.
She was barely Changed before Cadence was on her. She wrapped her up in her powerful arms and latched her teeth onto her throat before Sasha was even settled into her new skin. The saber-tooth was fast and slung her off, but Cadence had expected that. What she hadn’t expected was the grizzly that swatted her back, spinning her around and out of the fight. Bear shifters, huh? Sasha had brought the big boys.
Cadence went on the attack with the grizzly—lost her mind, didn’t think, just maimed. She used her claws against every inch of exposed hide. And when she bit, she sank her teeth as deep as she could before she was ripped off. She was relentless. As pain raked across her side, she rounded on the saber-tooth that had caused all of this. Sasha was fast, but Cadence was a cornered predator absolutely consumed by rage.
She focused on what she could—the fight at her claw-tips—but she was under a pile now and everything hurt. When Landon’s blond grizzly ripped one of the others off her, a small fraction of relief took her. And when a massive, honey-colored she-grizzly came bearing down on the war, she could focus more on Sasha. Willa would keep them off her while she handled this.
