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Chapter 20 - Dorian
I stopped running, my claws dragging on the pavement, and I held my nose in the air. Marian was close. Her scent was stronger here. I continued walking instead of running and stopped before a two-story house.
Parts of the yard were overgrown, all the windows were blocked out, and the house looked like it was on the verge of falling to pieces. Now, this looked more like an untamed vampire's house or nest.
I didn’t need to focus hard. I could hear Marian's galloping heartbeat inside, and I could smell Isaac, but something was off.
Before I could finish that thought, a portal opened, and Killian and twenty wolves ran out. Some were in their shifted forms while others weren't, and I started to shift. My bones rearranged, fur turned to skin, paws to hands, and Killian threw me sweatpants and shirt.
"She's here," I told him while getting dressed. "I'm going inside, and don't try to stop me, Killian. I don't care if he's a royal. He killed two people. I can’t lose Marian, and I won't."
Killian signaled to the wolves, and they started surrounding the house. "I'm not going to stop you, Dorian. She’s a member of our pack, your future mate. This won’t slide.”
I understood he wanted to handle this smoothly, but that wasn't how these things usually went. I scanned the house, mulling over a plan on how to enter without spooking Isaac, which might force him to hurt Marian.
I gritted my teeth, suddenly unsure of what to do. I didn't want to make a mistake. I couldn't.
Right now, a mistake could cost her her life.
"Can you tell if there is a nest?" Killian questioned, and I shook my head.
“No,” I answered. “Usually, potential nests are watched to judge how many vampires come and go. I don't smell any other scents other than Isaac, so it's safe to say it's only him."
“We’ll save her,” Killian said, and we stepped onto the lawn. “What’s the plan? Surely he can hear us already and know we’re here for her.”
I tensed, my ears twitching, when I heard fighting inside the house. Killian noticed it too, and when a scream pierced through the night, Marian’s scream, I started running. The front door was thrown open, revealing Marian, covered in blood.
“Marian!” I shouted.
She found me in the dark, her eyes squinting, and she started running down the stairs, her face slick with tears. To her right and my left, a man was thrown out a window, and straight away, I knew it was Isaac. He was on his feet in seconds, and a wolf tackled him to the ground again. Isaac threw the grey wolf and narrowly dodge another whose claws slashed his leg open.
There was a bite mark on Marian’s hand that she was clutching to her chest, and her blood was on Isaac’s face. He bit her! This fucker bit her!
I saw red.
"Isaac!" I growled so loud I thought the ground shook, and every wolf rushed to the front of the house.
What happened next was a chaotic mess because as Isaac stood up and I shouted his name, charged at him, and my claws opened his chest, Marian screamed.
“No! Dorian, don’t!”
She was snatched out of thin air when another vampire appeared out of nowhere. There were two of them, two Isaacs? Twins? I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The Isaac beside me crouched low, hissing at the other that had Marian in his clutches.
Marian’s captor had his hand around her throat, his claws like nails pressing into her throat.
Wolves advanced on him, but his nails tore Marian’s skin and everyone froze.
“If anyone moves,” he hissed. “I’ll tear her throat open.”
“Ian,” the twin beside me hissed. “Let her go!”
Ian? So that meant the twin beside me was Isaac? As confused as I was, I couldn't focus on that. Marian was in death's clutches. She was crying, her soft whimpers setting my very being on fire. She was looking between Isaac and me, begging to be saved.
“Let her go,” I growled at Ian, as Isaac had called him, he pressed his cheek to Marian’s.
He and Isaac were identical, like clones. Ian was the one we'd been hunting, his grey skin clearly indicating he was untamed. He wasn't rabid yet, though. If he was, he would have killed Marian already.
She was right, after all. Isaac hadn't betrayed her.
