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He arches a brow as if I’ve asked him to jump to the moon. “Did you get the longest log in the forest?”
“Excuse me? I’m trying,” I huff and turn back around. I loop an arm around the log about halfway and heave it backward a bit, then use every inch of strength to lift my end higher.
Sweat rolls down the side of my face, and exhaustion coils right in my chest. I don’t know how much longer I can do this before I pass out.
A sudden blur comes from my left.
It slams into me, wiping me clear off my feet, the log falling from my grip.
I scream. My back hits the ground so hard, all the air from my lungs escapes.
Panic strangles my chest, and adrenaline kicks in as a burly form straddles me.
A meaty hand strikes me on the cheek. Stars dance behind my eyelids as pain shoots across my face, and my screams never cease.
I throw punches and thrust against the rogue wolf shifter, who’s ripping at my clothes.
He growls, and an overpowering stink of wolf and earth collides into me. I frantically swing my fists into him, never stopping. But it seems to make no difference to this rock of a man.
He’s not massive, but he’s so fucking strong, it terrifies me.
“Woman,” he snarls in my face, like somehow he’s forgotten how to speak because he’s become the animal he is known for.
Boldly, I rake my fingernails across his face, breaking skin and making him bleed. He hits me in the face again, but I won’t stop. I won’t ever go down like this.
I pat the ground around me.
My hand latches onto a branch. I snatch it and drive it into his face, hitting him square in the eyes.
The asshole squeals like a banshee and jerks back, clasping his face. I shove against his chest and use that exact moment to slip out from under him.
Scrambling around, I push myself up from my hands and knees.
A strong hand seizes my ankle and yanks me backward. A foot pushes down on my ass, flattening me onto my stomach.
I yell and writhe to escape.
He’s tugging on my pants to drag them down my ass.
My terrified screams strangle me. I snatch the first rock I find nearby, then I twist just as his weight vanishes off me.
In a rush, I roll over onto my back, shuffling backward, my hand clutching tightly around the rock. I’m shaking hard, my heart a machine gun shooting off rounds.
Before me stands Bardhyl, as tall and broad as a bear. He towers over the rogue wolf and shoves his fist into the man’s face over and over, blood splashing from the deathly hits.
My hero’s face twists into fury as he snatches the man’s neck, fingers digging into his throat.
The rogue wolf’s eyes bug out with terror.
Bardhyl rips his throat out, holding the thing in his grasp.
There’s blood and sinew everywhere.
My stomach twists in on itself.
The man drops to the ground, gurgling, bleeding to death, and his end comes swiftly.
Bardhyl tosses the throat aside and spits before wiping his mouth with the sleeve of his coat. More dots splash over his cheeks, and when he looks at me, the hardness in his expression eases.
