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The truck slowed down, since it had nowhere else to go.
I hovered, flapping my wings to keep me in place.
As I watched, doors from both of the cars swung open, and shifters poured out. Not just one or two, but easily twelve of them. They must have been squashed in those cars.
One shifted into a wolf and attacked Zen just as he got out of the car. Another shifted into a bear and tackled Rune mid-shift.
Emmie’s screams sliced through me as if I was right next to them, and I watched as two men grabbed Danna, both of them in human form, and dragged her to the car. She held onto her daughter and tried to fight them off, but they were shifters with the kind of strength she could do nothing against.
I saw red. I was in fight-mode immediately.
Mine.
I folded my wings against my body and dove downward, heading toward them like a rocket. The twins had their hands full. Rune had managed to shift, but he’d been hurt before shifting, and his dragon dragged a wing. Zen was on his back, holding off the wolf that went for his neck, snapping vicious teeth at him. Zen’s arms and face had shifted into that of his green dragon, and with the claws, he managed to do damage to the wolf, but he was struggling and unable to shift as long as the wolf was going for his throat. He needed the time to just pull his animal to the surface fully.
I swooped in and tackled the two guys off Danna. She fell to the ground with a yelp, but the two guys who were still in human form didn’t stand a chance. The moment they were clear of my girls, I ripped one’s head off and clawed out the other’s throat.
Danna held Emmie tightly against her, keeping the child’s eyes closed.
Good, because I wasn’t going to leave any survivors. They’d fucked with the wrong alpha.
Rune tried to fly, but the bear had a claw in his muzzle, and Rune flapped his wings, hovering awkwardly just above the ground. He spewed fire from his mouth, blasting the bear so that its face singed, and the bear yowled in pain, but the beast still refused to let go. Rune was in a bad spot, held down by a creature that used its sheer weight against him.
Zen had managed to throw off the wolf and mauled it to death.
Between the two of us, we made quick work of the other shifters, picking them off one by one. Danna just had to make sure the little girl didn’t see any of this, and I wasn’t going to stop until they were safe.
The rage that boiled inside me had taken its shape, and I didn’t care about questioning them. They all deserved to die.
We were almost done when Danna screamed. A wolf was on top of her, snapping its jaws, biting her on the arm. Emmie cried, and I let go of the panther shifter I’d been fighting. Zen came up behind me, picking up where I left off, and I didn’t bother to see if he took care of it. I grabbed the wolf with my claws and yanked it away from Danna. Her arm bled, and the scent of her blood only enraged me more.
I slammed the wolf down on the road, my large claw wrapped around its throat, and lowered my large dragon head so that I was only inches from the wolf’s face. I wanted it to look into my eyes and see the death that waited for it.
Magic washed outward, and it wasn’t unfamiliar. Beneath my claw, my talons tainted with blood, the wolf body turned into that of a man.
“Wesley, please,” he stuttered, and I realized it was Cullen.
I huffed.
“Cullen?” one of the twins said behind me.
Rune appeared next to me in human form. His hand was badly mauled where the bear had held onto him for so long, and he was covered in bloody scrapes and bruises, but he was standing, and the anger and shock that rolled off him matched mine.
“What the fuck, man? You did this?” Rune asked.
“I’m sorry,” Cullen said. “Please, spare me, alpha.”
I wanted to shift into human form to find out what the hell was going on, but my anger was so great it kept the dragon alive, not letting it retreat so my human could come out again. How could Cullen be the one to betray me? I’d suspected an inside job, but this…
Bitterness filled me. I’d created an inner circle for myself that I could trust, people who I could call family because I’d never had something like that of my own. These were people who knew the risks of my curse and stayed, anyway—it was what I’d thought was a brotherhood. Now, one of the guys I’d thought would give his life for me had turned against me and donethis.Maybe I would have forgiven him if it had been anything else, but not this.
“I’m begging you for mercy,” Cullen said.
“You don’t deserve mercy,” Zen said, coming up on my other side, also in human form. He looked almost as hurt as Rune, save for the mauled hand, but his skin trembled with magic, and his eyes were filled with bloodlust.
“Zen, please,” Cullen said. “I was just following—”
I didn’t let him finish his sentence. I attacked him, tearing him apart. I didn’t give a shit what he was or wasn’t doing. He’d turned against me, betrayed me, and he’d hurt Danna and her daughter. Nothing he said could redeem him.
