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I lifted my foot, twirling as he made his strike and missed my leg. I managed to plant my foot hard onto his face. Next, I heard a deafening crackfrom his jaw, followed by a popas it dislocated.
I had three seconds before the pain would start fading and Rainer’s jaw would be healed, thanks to his half-werewolf state.
I bolted, popping my claws out and driving them into his chest as I grabbed a hold of his heart and twisted it bit by bit.
He screamed, trying to squirm away but to no avail.
“Should I go on?” I leaned in.
While I had him trapped, I unbuckled the gun from his belt with one swipe, and within three seconds, I pinned him with the end of his own gun pressed against his forehead.
For the first time in years, I saw pure fear and pain flash through Rainer’s eyes, and his breathing grew uneven as he tried inching away from me.
He closed his eyes, and something about that look on his face made me loosen my grip on the trigger to the point where I had completely lowered it.
The gun was not in his possession anymore. I could rest easy. He had once been a member of my pack. No matter how much discontent he held for me, I could never bring myself to end his life. “Dammit, Rainer. Why’d it come to this? Did the pack really mean nothing to you?” Tears began pooling in my eyes as I pulled my other arm out of his bleeding chest, freeing him from my claws.
He groaned, pulling away weakly, but I held him back with the same arm, using my other hand to flick the chamber open.
Wolfsbane bullets fell on the floor.
Not silver.
I raised my eyes to his. “Wolfsbane?”
He didn’t need to respond.
As I tried to wrap my head around what this could mean, a hooded dark figure materialized in the shadows. I could hardly see who it was, but one thing was for certain: the stranger was not meant to be seen.
I squinted, making out the lines of the stranger’s face and another set of lines … in the shape of a gun. My throat dried completely when I realized who it was. She held the same sharp cheekbones and brown eyes of the girl I loved.
Aera’s mother.
My heart dropped.
Her face was unrecognizable, her eyes lifeless and cold. She didn’t even seem to care that she had been caught. The arm holding the gun raised slowly. I could only think of so many thoughts at once as I released Rainer and shouted, “RUN!”
He didn’t hesitate, his body shifting completely into his wolf form as he bolted through the exit.
I stayed. Something had shaken me to the point of no movement. I couldn’t will my legs to run. Maybe I knew if I did, Rainer would die instead of me. Or maybe it was Fate, pulling me down to where I deserved to be.
Whatever it was made me linger, and all I could do was look in the eyes of the woman who now held my life in her hands.
We stared at each other for a minute.
It was the longest minute of my life.
“Gray, run!” someone called from behind me.
Aera.
Her voice broke the paralysis Fate had over me.
I turned around, beholding her in the yellow gown, shining in the moonlight.
Her tears were visible as she stepped in the gym, bunching the sides of her gown with her fists as she lifted them and hastened toward me.
I took one step.
