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Meira is tucked against my side. I’ll rip apart every one of these fuckers if they touch her.
I scan their faces, memorizing each one for when I come for them. Rein meets my gaze… a younger man whom I saved from the undead and brought into our compound. He’d lost his family to the creatures. His attention flicks from me to the woods at my side.
I jerk around and my throat closes.
Mad.
My fucking stepbrother emerges from the shadowy woodlands. His ice blue eyes pierce into me, white-blond hair fluttering in the breeze. He’s dressed immaculately in pressed pants, boots, and… is that my white button-up shirt? Rage echoes through me.
“What the fuck have you done?” I nudge Meira behind me and lift my chin, my hands curling into fists. I want to rip the smirk off his face.
I should have killed him the moment he was back at the compound. Should have known he’d have allies. Should have been smarter, but finding my fated mate was my priority. It was also a deadly distraction.
“Brother, you took your time returning. Glad you brought the bitch back.”
I spat on the ground between us. “I’ll rip your spine out if you touch her.”
Except it’s too late. I see our fate in his hateful smirk, in us being trapped by wolves who’ve betrayed me. My stomach twists in on itself at the thought of what Mad must have offered them to convert to his side. The promise of immunity against the undead?
Meira is suddenly ripped from my grasp, her cries ringing in the air.
I spin and lunge after the two men tearing her from me. She screams, one of her arms flinging free from her captors and reaching for me. The dread on her face will stay with me for eternity.
My wolf claws for release to destroy them. All I see is red and their deaths as I run, inches from taking her back.
“Dušan!” Meira calls to me, her gaze on something behind me.
In that moment, a hard punch connects with the middle of my back, sending me sprawling forward on hands and knees. I try to get up, but Mad locks an iron arm around my neck, keeping me on my knees.
“She’s no longer yours,” he whispers in my ear, his voice gravelly and flooded with wry mirth.
Murder plays on my mind. How much I will enjoy taking his life. I tremble with fury and thrust against him. But everything dissolves when I watch Rein jab an injection into the side of Meira’s neck.
Her cries cut me.
I explode, my wolf pushing to tear out of me.
The sharp prick of a needle jammed into my neck comes fast. As does the tingles that rush through my limbs, and then the numbness hits.
Mad drives a fist into my shoulder just as I’d done to him back at the pack house fortress. I collapse forward. My heart beats hysterically as I crash to the ground, devastation fueling my rage.
The world sits at a sideway in my view as I lie on the ground. Meira is on hands and knees, gasping for air like she’s choking.
My mouth opens, but only a gurgled sound comes out.
She’s screaming with agony, her back arching. Skin splitting and fur spilling out, her bones stretching, her jaw elongating.
The change has come now.
Oh, shit!
Straining, I shove myself up to my feet. The world spins and I can’t even feel my body. Adrenaline owns me and I grasp onto those moments. I need to get to her. Connect with her energy to help her shift.
Meira!
Her gaze finds me, and behind those wolf eyes lies my scared little gorgeous girl. Her panic calls to me and it curls around my heart that she won’t survive the change, that the wolf will kill her.
Growling under my breath, I push my numb legs to move forward to see her through her first transformation. One step and someone strikes me in the back of my head. My vision dances with stars.
