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Chapter 14
Meira
Idig my fingers into the soft soil as my heart hits the back of my throat. Coldness sweeps through me, bringing with it the reality of how much shit I’m in.
I flinch and look over my shoulder as a gray wolf stands inches behind me. Hot breath washes over my back, his growl reverberating so loudly, it seeps into me. I can’t stop shaking. My gaze swings back to Dušan, who stands six feet away, blood draining from his face. Bardhyl is close by, and Lucien is nowhere in sight.
Dušan straightens, his shoulders broad, his demeanor transforming into a powerful Alpha before my eyes. Anger now lashes his features, his upper lip twisted.
“Why are you on my land?” Dušan barks loudly, nostrils flaring, voice flooded with menace. Shadows gather under his eyes, and there’s no way in hell I want to ever cross him when he looks this furious. But right now I welcome it, want him to tear apart the creature looming over me.
“You get one chance,” Dušan warns. The air thickens with the scent of his wolf and the energy of an oncoming transformation. His eyes have already morphed into his wolf’s.
My skin is littered with goosebumps from the war I’m in the middle of.
Fear swells inside my mind, slipping into my veins, except I’m not alone anymore. I have three Alphas who will fight for me…withme.
I feel the weight of the knife in my boot, but I don’t reach for it, not yet. I stay kneeling on the ground, waiting for the right moment. I have no damn idea when that is, though.
No one dares move an inch.
Shadows slink around the woods surrounding us, circling us, cornering us. More wolves.
I want to warn my men, but I am under no illusion my Alphas aren’t already aware of the additional intruders.
My heart speeds.
Then in a crazy moment of silence, everything changes.
Thundering steps strike the earth at my right. I turn just as Lucien, still in his human form, lunges at the wolf behind me.
Lucien slams into him, dragging him away, but not before the enemy bites into my shoulder.
Sharp pain slices into my flesh, and my screams bleed into the air as I’m dragged down from the momentum.
I’m drowning in agony while commotion explodes around me. I hit the ground with a loud smack, and I swear I’m going to scream from the exhaustion of constantly getting hurt and being in danger.
For those few seconds, I feel nothing but the racing adrenaline taking me over.
I rush to my feet, my hand going to my boot. Knife in hand, I stagger backward, shudders tearing through me.
Lucien strangles the wolf with his bare hands as the creature jerks to his feet, and I can’t breathe from the terror colliding into me.
Sounds of battle burst from my other side. I whip around as Dušan battles two wolves. Bardhyl, in his white wolf form, roars with fury as another two wolves collide with him.
I should go help, but I can’t even stand upright steadily.
When a shadow emerges from my right, I turn in its direction. A brown wolf with white-tipped ears and dark eyes prowls toward me. I lift my weapon because I’m not fast enough to outrun him.
I know better than to run, anyway. It would only further spark the wolf’s desire to show his dominance over me. Doesn’t stop my legs from shaking.
“Don’t come any closer,” I threaten, my fingers tightening around the knife’s hilt until my knuckles turn white.
This is my fight as much as the Alphas’. I edge past a pine tree, my eyes never leaving the enemy.
Head low, he slinks closer, a deep, guttural sound rolling from his chest. I twist away, the air rushing out of me as an overbearing fear squeezes my chest.
Then he charges.
