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“Easy,” she whispered.
“Are you insane?” Dee blasted. “Get away from him! Let him die! Your life will be one hell of a lot better!”
Erin reached out a hand to the wolf. The too-sharp teeth snapped together, barely missing her fingertips.
“Erin!”
“It’s going to be all right,” she whispered, but the words were a lie. A tear trickled down her cheek. No, no, this wasn’t the way things should have ended.
She ignored the teeth and the claws that tried to swipe at her.An injured beast would rip and tear anything in its path.Even if she was the one in the creature’s path. Her fingers sank into the bloody fur. The wolf ’s hind legs were broken, no, shattered.
Hold on.
“Call for help,” she ordered, never taking her eyes off the wolf.
“Yes, I need to get help for whoever is in that SUV! But not for this mangy wolf and I—aw, hell, I left my phone in the car!”
A growl rose in Erin’s throat.
She heard the soft fall of Dee’s footsteps as the human stumbled back. “Erin, wh-what’s up with you? I thought you hated this guy.” Suspicion now. Worry.
The wolf jerked its head against her and managed to let out a long, mournful howl. The beast’s eyes darted to the left, and it whimpered.
Such bright yellow eyes.
“This isn’t the stalker who’s after me.” The shift began then. Fast, because the wolf was weak and so was the woman. “This is my mother.”
And she was dying.
* * *
“Where the hell are they?” Jude’s foot shoved down even harder on the gas pedal as the car lurched forward. The car was Zane’s, but he’d borrowed it while the demon secured Kyler.
The bastard likes to get up close and personal with his prey. That’s how he makes the kills.And why he’d given the order that Jude would be brought to him alive. But if he’d come to the den, if he’d learned what happened...
Fuck.
Jude yanked the steering wheel to the left. Every instinct he had screamed the wolf had gone running, but not out of the city. Instead, he’d gone?—
To Erin.
For a sports car, Zane’s “baby” sure wasn’t going fast enough. He shifted hard and the engine roared. Zane would have to trail as fast as he could on the motorcycle they’d found at the cabin.
Erin. Be safe, sweetheart.His claws ripped through his fingertips.
* * *
“I got Antonio on the phone. He’s sending help.” Dee eased onto her knees beside Erin. “I found this in my SUV.” She handed her a faded jacket.
Erin’s mother lay on the ground, pale and unmoving. So much blood.
Carefully, Erin put the jacket over her body.
“Can’t she change? Like Jude did back at the den, can’t she shift again to heal?—”
“She’s too weak.” If Antonio didn’t get there soon with the ambulance, she’d be dead. Erin brushed back a clump of her mother’s hair. They really looked so much alike. When she’d been a girl, her mother had combed her hair every night before bed, laughing as she stroked her?—
Her mother’s lashes lifted, so slowly. Yellow eyes, hazy with pain, tried to focus on Erin. “R-run.”Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.
