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Bardhyl
Meira’s cries shatter through me like shards of glass.
“Leave her the fuck alone,” I bellow from the cell I’m locked in with Lucien. My knuckles are white from how tightly I strangle the metal bars, throttling them.
Lucien is rattling the door with fury.
My eyes are locked on Meira. Always on Meira.
She cries and kicks and scratches the brute daring to lay a hand on her. I’m trembling, my wolf surging through me, my skin pricking with the change.
In my mind, I’m already ripping his throat out. I always push back the hunger from my wolf, try to tame him before I lose all control.
But not anymore… My heart is pounding, fists by my side.
“Bardhyl, I need your help to get this damn door down.”
I whip my gaze in Lucien’s direction as he kicks his boot into the bottom hinge of our prison.
The guard snaps his attention our way, snarling and twisting to come over, when Meira jumps onto his back, slamming a fist into his head.
Damn fucking brute swings around and throws her off with ease.
Her scream as she hits the floor burns in me like scalding acid. She’s mine… my mate, and I am livid with the hunger to kill the guard for defying our Alpha, for ambushing us, but most of all, I’m going to rip his head off for daring to touch what belongs to me.
“Get the fuck over here!” Lucien shouts, and I march over to the door as he backs away.
I kick my heel with all my strength into the bottom hinge. The door shudders, the metallic groan echoing across the room.
I don’t relent, don’t feel anything but madness in my veins.
Meira’s in the bastard’s clutches. He holds her by her throat, lifting her off her feet. Lucien is yelling at them, and I’m barely holding back my wolf, except there’s no use letting him free until I’m out of this cell. The more I watch her hurt, the more my head spins, and I’m breaking on the inside. It kills me to hear her cries, to do nothing.
I slam my heel again and again into the hinge, when finally, it gives a loud, metallic crack.
“Finish it!” Lucien commands.
I kick ferociously, my hands balled into fists and a growl in my throat as I put everything behind the thrust.
Metal warps, the bottom half of the door near the hinge buckles and snaps away from the bar.
Lucien lunges forward, shoving a shoulder into the door so it pushes away, offering a slight gap. I’m right there and shove my hands into the side of the door, pushing with all my might. Together, we bend the bar upward just enough for escape.
That’s all we fucking need.
Lucien slides out of the prison cell first.
But before he can pull the metal back, the guard appears suddenly from where he was beating up Meira at the other end of the room. He now crash-tackles Lucien to the ground. I didn’t even see him rush this way, too caught up in getting free. Lucien kicks him in the gut and scrambles back up while lunging at the bastard.
My gaze swings to Meira, who lies on the ground in a heap, blood on her face, nose, and jawline. On the ground near her lies a blade, and my heart plunges to my feet.
Did the asshole stab her?
Rage engulfs me, and I shove my shoulder into the bent door and squeeze out, bursting free. My wolf erupts out of me as I snatch the back of the guard’s neck, dragging him away from Lucien and hurling him into the wall.
I roar, my body pulsing, aching, burning with the change. Clothes rip off me, falling away in shreds. Seconds is all it takes, and I’m on all fours, covered in white fur, leaping at the man. His head twists around to see me charging.
His mouth falls open in a silent scream, and his fear taints the air. He took too long fighting to bother changing. Too late.
