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“Can’t bring back the dead,” Ash muttered. “No matter if it happened outside the circle.”
Onai raised his voice. “The evidence is here. We all saw Shota go down. We heard the leniency he refused. We witnessed our new alpha leave the ring and observed Shota break all rules and attack him. Not only after he lost, but outside the ring and from behind.”
“Murder,” someone muttered. “Didn’t have to kill him.”
Her body jerked, and she wanted to say something, but Ash stopped her, pulling her back.
Tamaska glared at her. “They just said—”
“I know.” Ash’s grip tightened. “And it wasn’t. If anything, Kodiak broke the rules with leniency, although as alpha he can do that. Shota got lost in hate and rage.”
She bit her lip. Ash had just lost yet another friend.
“If it helps,” Ash added, “take these.” She handed her a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. “For our alpha, when it’s time.”
“When…?”
“You’ll know.”
But she knew nothing, except what she wanted.
She wanted the nightmare to just end: the violence, the vampires, the secret rules, and ways of the supernaturals that said she wasn’t worthy.
“The winner is Kodiak,” Onai said.
Shifters started muttering and in among those mutterings she heard some anger.
No. It wasn’t going to end. And it was all because of her. A human who’d gotten herself marked by a vampire and somehow made these shifters a target.
Kodiak glanced around the area, from face to face to face. “Is there anyone else who wants to challenge me?”
Tamaska looked up at Kodiak, her skin prickling as catching her breath became suddenly difficult. And she couldn’t take her eyes off him. He was glorious. More than that. He’d changed. Something about him was more powerful than before.
“Well?” He said the word with a soft and low tone, but it rang out everywhere and seemed to make the very air vibrate with the power that came from him.
It was awe-inspiring, devastating, and to her, insanely erotic.
What the hell was wrong with her? Erotic? She almost laughed.
But of course she didn’t. Because it was, and this was nothing like a laughable moment.
It was incredibly grave, deeply important, and she was privileged to be here.
She glanced around at the pack, which had witnessed the entire fight. They all stared at the ground.
“Anyone?” Kodiak asked.
He didn’t need to say that if there were, he’d fight each and every one of them if they challenged. And he’d win. Even bleeding and injured, he’d win.
That knowledge was something she knew down in her soul.
He would win.
And as the first person went down on one knee and lowered her head, so did the shifters here.
Kodiak was their alpha. A new dawn. Even she could feel that.
One by one, the pack members knelt and bowed their heads.
