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Lucien swings right sharply, along with Dušan, just as the hairs on my nape start lifting. The air thickens, and I sense someone near. I snatch the back of Lucien’s top, just as a group of figures emerge from up ahead where the woods are thicker, darker. Dušan pauses with us.
Guards, maybe twenty of them, come at us so suddenly, I retreat.
A hum carries on the wind, closely followed by thundering steps racing up behind us as well. My nerves wound tight, I snap around just as a fist crunches right in the middle of my face.
I groan, the pain zigzagging across the bridge of my nose, and stars dance in my vision. “The fuck?!”
Fury blasts through me, and I’m already lunging at the enemy before I can clearly see who it is. Who gives a fuck when I’m tearing him down?
Punch after punch, I finish him, my fury a blinding bull pushing and pushing me. If our war has begun, I won’t back down.
Someone smashes into my side, throwing me to the ground. I roar and leap up to my feet when a wall of guards rushes toward me. Lucien and Dušan are fighting their own battles, but they’re outnumbered.
This isn’t part of the plan… we made a grave mistake. We assumed that Mad would leave this entrance manned with the usual number of guards.
More men charge at me, and I’m knocked backward from their sheer force. Fire lashes over my back from the hard, rocky ground.
Instinct has me scrambling back up, recoiling, searching for a rock or something as a weapon.
I recoil, my legs slipping out from under me down the slope while I lose sight of the other two. My wolf shoves forward when the siren abruptly goes off, right as more guards emerge from the direction of the back entrance. Except the alarm has nothing to do with a breach. It’s to announce to Mad that we’ve been caught. This was a damn trap.
Fuck!
Sucking in hard breaths, I meet each of my attackers’ eyes. Asshole Alphas and Betas at the bottom of the pack hierarchy.
Then they charge at me.
Fists, knees, knuckles. They find me. Pummel into me. I lash out as ferociously as possible, needing a few seconds to change, but more pile on top.
Blood drips from my mouth and nose, and for the first time in too long, fear creeps over me at the realization that maybe we’ve chewed off more than we can handle.
