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My feet were glued to the ground and terror shacked me. Tingles filled my muscles with the urgency to run and helpRaze.
“Bee,” Raze growled, “I can’t hold on.” His body shimmied with the telltale sign of the changecoming.
Ice daggers pierced my chest. Darkness slinked through me aswell.
“Hold him!” I couldn’t stop shaking. This was my nightmare, facing off with bear shifters or unleashing my evil side if this didn’twork.
Raze’s arms trembled, but he snarled and hauled his brother fartherbackward.
I scrambled afterthem.
Except Talin turned and catapulted himself at Raze,bellowing.
Raze’s face paled, his eyes widening withhorror.
The pair crashed into a tree. Talin’s mouth latched on to Raze’sshoulder.
Iscreamed.
Raze growled, his face distorted with torture, his menacing eyes blazing withrage.
Instinct took over, and I swiped a branch off the ground, then closed the distance between us. I brought the weapon down across Talin’s head. The sudden release of pressure had the stick cracking inhalf.
I shuddered, my gaze swinging left and right as I searched for something to defend myself with. My mind drowned in the horrible death coming my way and a strangled cry rolled from mythroat.
Talin flinched, staggering on all fours at first, shaking his head. His brother grimaced and pushed himself to his knees, yet he swayed on thespot.
“Raze, get up,” I bellowed and bent over, patting for my pouch in my boots. Nothing there. Shit! I must have dropped theherbs.
Talin’s jerky movements had me retreating, but he pivoted toward Rek and charged with a mightygrowl.
At first, I hesitated, torn between being scared out of my head and confronting a savage Talin. I burst after him. “Talin! Please, don’t dothis.”
The moment he crashed against Rek, his claws tore at his cousin’s throat, so fast and deep, red splattered the snow andtrees.
I halted, a hollowness swallowing me whole. Our efforts lost.Wasted.
Rek slumped in the snow as his body shook and changed form back into ahuman.
The world tilted beneath me from our poisonous predicament. I yelled from pure frustration, the hopelessness, the rage burning me up from the inside out. I stood unmoving. My life had become one twisted pile ofknots.
And yet Lilita was in my head, howling withlaughter.
Talin snapped in my direction, his mouth gaping open, blood staining his teeth and chin. No humanity was left in his cold, wildeyes.
Shivers climbed myspine.
Talin had killed hiscousin.
Did that mean all-out warfare? Worse yet, I had no way of finding out what object he’d used for the curse. And to top things off, the slicing ache of Lilita shoving herself forward pierced throughme.
In a flash, Raze darted up behind Talin and whacked him in the head with a huge rock. Raze’s eyes rolled upward as he fell to his knees, then face-planted into the snow. Raze tossed the stone aside and pushed his brother onto his back, still in his mid-transformationform.
“Shit! Is he going to be okay?” My words shook, and grief tore me apart. Rek was dead and so was our chance to find out from him the location of the cursed object that could break the spell. Anguish surged forward, and tears flooded mycheeks.
Raze joined me, and his skin twitched as his eyes glazed over. Blood tainted the corner of his mouth. Before I could say a word, he had me in his arms, our mouths plastered together. And goddess forgive me, but even surrounded by death and chaos, falling beneath Raze’s passion undidme.
He clenched my hair in his fists, tilting my chin up as he drove me up against a tree. His hardness pressed into my lower abdomen, grinding against my stomach, and I mewled. A growl thundered in hischest.
