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Phell, in his demon form, ran at me.
I skidded to the side, dodging his strike. Phell sent a wave of shadows at me—demonic magic. I ran to the side, he sent another wave my way. I changed directions and he sent it again.
Panting—I wasn’t used to running and fighting anymore—I paused for a second. I couldn’t outrun his magic.
Unless …
Phell swiped his arms wide, sending another wave of shadows toward me, a bigger, wider one.
Instead of running, I focused on it. I imagined myself jumping over the wave, rolling under it, stepping through without a problem.
Like it had happened before, when Phell killed my mother, the shadows parted and rolled past me.
“How?” Phell growled, his voice deep, rough. “How are you doing that? You’ve done it before. I remember.”
I had no idea how, and honestly, I didn’t care, as long as I could use it to win this damn fight. I charged Phell. With a snarl, he sent shadow bolts at me. Swift in my wolf form, I dodged them.
I wondered …
Phell sent another wave of bolts toward me.
I stopped and focused on them. They rounded me and zoomed toward him. Phell gasped and jumped to the side, but I had caught him by surprise and he wasn’t fast enough. A couple hit his chest and shoulder, and he stumbled to the street’s hard pavement.
My chance.
I jumped, clamping my teeth around his neck. He grabbed for my head, but I sank my teeth deep and twisted. His neck snapped, his body turned heavy.
I dropped him and stepped back, shocked.
I had killed him.
I had killed someone.
Shaking from horror and disgust, I reminded myself Phell had been a demon, an evil one, and he had killed my mother and so many other people. He deserved this.
I stared at where Dixon had gone, to the end of the street. By now, he was at the edge of the pack lands. But maybe I could still catch up. I couldn’t let him take the crystals.
A roar echoed behind me and I looked back to the main square. Shane, in his new form, attacked the demons defending Conri, ripping them apart as if they were paper.
Despite his scary appearance, Shane fared well against the demons, but I knew Conri was playing with him, tiring him so he could take Shane down.
I knew I had no chance to catch Dixon, so I ran toward Shane, my paws pounding the pavement. New voices and sounds reached my ears and I halted and turned to the source.
I gasped as supernaturals came in my direction—vampires zoomed past me, wolf shifters ran toward the fighting, and three witches halted beside me.
“Hi, I’m Lavinia,” said a pretty woman with red-tipped black hair. “You must be Raika.” I nodded. “This is Thea.” She gestured to a blonde witch, then she pointed to the older witch taking off her long, black jacket. “And this my aunt, Almae. We are Shane’s friends. Sorry it took so long, but we’re here to help.”
I shifted back—it hurt more than I remembered. Or perhaps my body wasn’t used to it anymore. “You were able to break the barrier?”
Almae placed her jacket around my shoulders, covering my naked body. “Something changed,” she said.
I thanked her and put on the jacket.
“The barrier became weak all of a sudden,” she continued.
The crystals. When Conri took the crystals, the barrier weakened.
“After that, it didn’t take long for us to break through.”
