Caius shouts something I don’t quite catch, the incoming snarls reverberating all around me and eliciting shivers from deep within.
Run, my wolf demands as Tieran releases me to handle one of the shifters who has just entered the kitchen.Run!
I’ve always been able to tame her, to keep her down.
But not anymore.
Not since she took over during our initial shift.
I’m a slave to her needs now and I do exactly what she says.
I sprint for the broken window, leap over the edge, and bolt full speed into the forest. My human legs are far more powerful and faster than my wolf’s legs because I’ve spent two decades learning how to move on two feet instead of four paws.
Thisis why I won my trials.
I’m fast.
I’m strong.
And I know when to pick my battles.
I choose this battle now.
I choose today to fight.
11
TIERAN
“Fuck!”
That little brat is going to hurt herself. Or worse.
I growl as I snap Alpha Kin’s neck. He’ll heal. It’ll take a day, but he’ll survive and that’s what matters.
The Alphas are being driven by rutting lust.
On a deep level I understand that.
It doesn’t make me any less pissed.
It would be so damn easy to take the silver blade from my pocket and drive it through Alpha Kin’s heart.Thatwould kill him, an act that a dark part of me feels he deserves. But I ignore the darkness and join Caius in the living room.
Alpha Dirk is unconscious with a shard of glass embedded in his chest.
Volt is standing just outside the doorway handling two more lust drunk Alphas.
Caius jumps through the window with me on his tail. The wind tells me what direction Clove went in.
“Go!” Caius demands. “We’ll be right behind you.”
I don’t stay to debate the options or strategize our best plan. There isn’t time. Instead, I take off after the fleeing Omega.
She’s just inspired chaos on the island.
Her pheromones—which are absolutely fucking real—are going to drive all the Alphas mad. Maybe even the Betas.
She’s an unclaimed Omega going into heat.
