Page 296 of Knot What I Expected

His face changes.

“What?”

“I walked in alone.”

A roar tears through the forest.

Not Bear.

Not Dragon.

Something monstrous.

Something mine.

Ethan’s eyes widen.

“I never said they wouldn't follow me.”

Then all hell breaks loose.

Wreck hits them from the east.

Holy.

Fucking.

Shit.

I have never seen his full hybrid Bear before. But let me tell you, there is nothing cuddly about him now.

He is enormous. Gigantic. Fierce. His mismatched eyes burn from a face that is part man, part beast, and entirely nightmare.

A Vulture Shifter lunges at him.

Bad fucking decision.

Wreck catches the male in one massive paw and throws him into a tree hard enough that I hear bones crack.

Another attacks. Wreck’s claws rip through his chest. Blood sprays across the leaves.

Then Rowan comes from the west.

Not Rowan.

Monster.

My breath catches.

He’s horrifying. He’s beautiful. He moves upright, a massive lupine nightmare of fur, muscle, teeth, and claws.

And he is coming for me.

Three Vultures rush him.

Monster hits the first so hard they go tumbling through the dirt together. Rowan comes up first. His jaws close around the male’s shoulder. Bones crunch. He throws him aside.

The second gets claws across his belly. The third never reaches him. Rowan catches the Shifter by the throat. One violent twist.