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“He’s right,” Bardhyl adds. “It’s the only way if she hasn’t calmed down yet. Her wolf is too wild.”
Dušan is grief-stricken, and I don’t blame him. He pushed her to do this. But in truth, we’re all just as responsible. Each one of us owes her for putting her in this position. Salvation of the pack drove her to the edge and never once did we ask if she was really ready.
I grind my back teeth, fury lashing through me.
Dušan gives a single nod, and instantly, a charge of electricity threads through the air.
His thunderous growl rises through him and covers even me in goosebumps from the power he exudes. Some wolves are born to be leaders; their wolves carry tremendous power. Their presence alone can drive other wolves into submission, and Dušan is one such Alpha.
With a sudden shake of his head, his lips peel back, and he unleashes a deep, gravelly growl. The corded muscles in his neck flex, the sound earthy, carrying a deadly warning.
Meira falls still. Her chest rises and falls rapidly with her fear. Still, a rumble rolls past her throat.
Bardhyl half-grins, but I can tell it’s a struggle. “She’s a fighter, my angel legs.”
Dušan suddenly jerks forward, his mouth and teeth instantly latching on to the side of Meira’s neck. He bites down. Not to kill her, but to hold her to the ground of his own force. To assert dominance, to get the wolf to back the fuck down.
Bardhyl and I release her. This is something that is done by Alpha and Omega. If Meira can’t control her wolf, then Dušan will take charge for now.
Threatening growls punch through the silence.
Meira doesn’t move, her wolf well aware that such a bite could kill her, so she sits in silence.
And Dušan will force her down for as long as it takes for her to submit.
Bardhyl clenches his jaw, watching them.
Waiting.
Come on, little one. Just give in.
A brutal wind rushes past, rustling the branches, chilling my skin. All I can think about is the hardship Meira has been through her entire life. Losing her family. Surviving alone in the woods. Not understanding why she was different. And now to see her on her side on the ground like this makes me sick to my stomach.
I don’t know how long we’ve waited, but when finally a faint whimpering from Meira emerges, relief washes over me.
Moments later, her body morphs and stretches. Dušan pulls back, sitting on his heels.
Bardhyl and I approach her. All of us are on our knees around her as she transforms.
In a heartbeat, our soulmate lies on the ground between us, curled in on herself, naked, bruised from her earlier assault on the undead.
She cranes her head up and looks at each of us, the wolf still in her eyes.
I’ve never seen her this frightened, and her reaction carves through my heart.
“I-I t-thought, I’d never…” Her words fade and tears stream down her face. The terror of knowing she was stuck in the wolf would have been petrifying.
Dušan swoops her into his embrace, an arm cradled under her knees, the other at her back, and she curls against his chest. Her soft cries are blades to my throat.
“I’m so sorry,” Dušan whispers to her.
I’ve never heard him apologize, but the heartbreak in his voice has me choking up.
Bardhyl is just as lost in his thoughts, in his misery of what we almost lost today.
On the way back to the cave leading to the tunnels, the herd of zombies from the earlier massacre wander through the woods. There are so many of them, it leaves me uneasy. My pulse spikes because in truth, I can’t tell if they’re under Meira’s control or wild creatures.
Regardless, the four of us keep a quick pace to our cave without a sound. As we enter, I glance back.
