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The bullet strikes Dušan right in the chest with such strength, it throws him backward. He hits the ground with a heavy thump. The guard next to him throws himself to the ground, barely missed by the bullet.
My insides shatter like glass, and I’m at his side in a flash. Dropping to my knees, I cry out, “Dušan, please tell me you’re okay!Please.”
So much blood pours from his chest where he got shot. I can’t even see the bullet in the tangle of blood and fur.
His eyes are glassy and he’s looking up at me.
Tears run down my cheeks. I’m breaking apart. “Y-You h-have to heal.” I hiccup my breaths, hating the feeling coming over me. I’ll lose him. And the emptiness I lived with all my life rushes forward.
The hurt, the agonizing despair, the constant battle to make it through another day. All those feelings are tangled in a knot, swelling inside me.
He’s still breathing, drawing in rugged, hissing breaths.
I’m sobbing uncontrollably as his body changes back to his human form.
Lying before me is my Dušan, trembling, curled on his side. Deep gash wounds cover his body, just as they did on Mad. I press my hands to his chest to stop the bleeding. His mouth moves, but no words come out.
“Just hold on. You’ll heal. It’s what wolves do. Please don’t leave me. Don’t you dare, Dušan.”
Blood seeps between my fingers, riveting down my hand and splattering into the soil.
He needs help.
“Hold on.” My pleading slips past my lips as more tears fall.
Suddenly, someone grabs my hair and yanks me backward.
I cry out, reaching back to free my hair, my feet moving with the motion, all the while, my heart thundering.
“It’s over. He’s dead and you are mine.” Mad’s hoarse words tear over me.
I can’t breathe from the anger crashing into me. My lungs tighten, as do my muscles. And I can’t stop looking at Dušan, but I don’t know if his ability can heal a bullet wound. He’s on the ground, in a pool of blood.
This is too fucking much. I scream and shake violently.
I’ve lost everything once already, and I won’t let someone take it from me again. I thrust and buck against Mad, my hands clawing at his grip on my hair. But on the inside, I’m dying at Dušan being left to die.
My entire body pulses with adrenaline.
With it comes a hatred that rages inside me, beating through me.
I’m broken. I’ve always been this way, and there’s only one way to really finish this.
My monster lingers just beneath the surface, nudging me to come out, to be free.
She is my salvation, always has been, I see this now. And without her, I can’t stop Mad.
And in an abrupt moment of desperation, I open my floodgates to my wolf.
She doesn’t need coaxing and rushes out of me, coming so fast, her brutal growl startles even me. She’s a tempest of vengeance, and I set her free, well aware of the consequences she brings to me. And I don’t have a single regret.
I can’t live with myself if I don’t do everything in my power to finish this fucking bastard who should have died long ago.
His grip slackens as my transformation rocks through me, ripping me apart like someone’s taken a blade to my body, and then stitched me back together. The world sharpens, and for the first time, I ease my grasp over my wolf.
You are free, I tell her.This is all you now.I shudder, my thoughts constantly on Dušan. While the other half of me drowns in violent fury.
My wolf whips around without any encouragement from me.
