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“I don’t think so. Just pissed.”
“We are too, trust me,” Jeff said. “Let’s get you to your mate.”
Her heart in her throat, she followed Angel as he took off at a run into the woods. Jeff and Ben were behind her, crashing through the underbrush. Everyone was growling in urgency, including her, and her beast really wanted to come out and fight. She hadn’t really fought with anyone in ages, and that was only play fighting as a youngster to learn how to handle herself in case the need arose, but she’d go claws and fangs against anyone who wanted to take out her mate.
He was hers to keep and she was planning to see that happen.
* * *
Oz leaped over Tolis’s body and barreled into Voll. They hit the ground and Oz bounced back up onto the balls of his feet, swinging out a leg and catching Voll in the knee. The bone cracked and the male went down with a howl of pain.
Oz was a male possessed, relentless. He was not going to stop until every single male who’d had a hand in abducting China had been put down. They had no right to take her to force his hand, but now that they had—they’d be sorry.
A claw caught his side, tearing his flesh and blasting searing agony through him. Roaring, he spun away from Drager and his bloody claws, and ignored the wound, charging forward and meeting the male head on. Claws slashed, fangs were bared, and growls mixed with pained grunts. For every strike at him, Oz gave two.
“You didn’t have to take her,” Oz said as he ducked a punch and came up under the male, nailing him in the chin.
“Easier to take her out when you’re dead if we know where she is,” Drager said, lobbing the words at Oz like grenades.
Oz lifted his head and let out a furious roar, red hazing his vision and his lion pressing against his skin to be let free. To hell with the rules. To hell with everything. He just wanted China safe. He wanted them both safe.
His hands were wrenched behind his back, and he kicked out, trying to take out whoever had grabbed him, but he missed and kicked air. Drager came at him, striking him. Oz’s ears rang as he was punched again and again, his vision blurring and his fangs cutting his lips. He struggled, but the hold only grew tighter.
No! This was not how he was going out.
Chapter Eleven
China could smell Oz’s blood as they neared the battle. Her lioness couldn’t handle knowing that Oz was injured, and although she tried to stay in her human form, her skin split and her bones cracked, her beast coming out faster than she’d ever shifted before.
She hit the ground running, her paws eating up the distance to the clearing. Oz was being pummeled by two males, with one holding his arms behind his back. Oz was struggling valiantly, but the fight was unfair, and he was outnumbered.
She’d fix that.
“Get him girl!” Angel yelled.
China leaped into the fray, sinking her claws into the back of the male holding her beloved mate. She bit his shoulder, her fangs embedding deeply and tearing through muscle as she dragged him, screaming, away from Oz.
There was another, deeper roar and she lifted her head and watched her amazing mate change forms into a huge lion. He wasted no time in going after the males.
The one below her wasn’t moving, but she didn’t think he was dead.
Her head snapped to the side as she saw something out of the corner of her eye. One of the males was slinking away.
Hell no!
Charging forward, she wove through the pride members like her tail was on fire, until she chased down the male. He didn’t get very far on his human legs. She bit his leg and pulled, taking him to the ground and dragging him back into the clearing. He screamed and clutched at the legs of the pride members, but no one tried to help him.
She deposited the male at Oz’s feet, and when he tried to crawl away, Oz lifted into the air and slammed his paws down on his back. The male grunted and then went still.
Looking around, China saw six bodies, bloody and broken. She didn’t know if they were all still alive, but she didn’t care. The pride cheered, clapping and whistling, and China bumped her shoulder against Oz’s, who licked her cheek.
The elders stormed into the clearing. “No!” Tiberius said. “No! Quiet!”
The pride quieted and Oz looked at China warily.
“This is not right. You cheated! You both cheated and therefore you’re going to be imprisoned for crimes against the pride,” Mark said.
Angel, Jeffrey, Ben, Craig and Teresa raced into the clearing and stood next to them.
