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We’re a threat to him, it’s why I sent Ava back home. She’s had enough suffering to last a lifetime. I don’t want her to see Theo and me destroying each other.
My heart grieves for my daughter. I don’t think she’ll ever forgive me for leaving her guys on the other side. I’ll never forgive myself as I remember the look of horror in each of their faces right before they were swept away by the shadows.
I hate that I’ll have to bring the terrible news to the kids’ parents, tell them I’ve failed my first assignment as Luna. The thought of speaking to their parents and delivering the devastating news makes me nauseous. All I can think about now is that they won’t graduate high school or go to college. I should’ve been more assertive, I should’ve used my power of persuasion to get them to leave, but I didn’t, and now they’re gone.
I push my thoughts away for the moment, staying focused on my target instead. Only one of us is making it out alive after tonight. The dead bodies that were lying on the ground have been absorbed by one of the shadows.
A savage snarling erupts behind me, the high-pitched sounds of lycans tearing into my guys. My men shriek of fury and pain, along with the sickening rip of flesh. The tang of fresh blood floods the air.
My muscles scream to whirl around, to protect my mates. But the lycan’s eyes blaze before me, his hulking form ready to strike. This is his strategy, he wants me distracted.
I hear bodies slam to the ground and the struggles of my guys trying to get back up, but I know my guys won’t go down that easily.
“Kat. How’d you know I was waiting?” Theo asks, his voice rough, still in his lycan form as the three men join his side once again.
Behind me, I hear the labored breathing and pained groans of my mates as they struggle to rise. I let out a small breath of relief. They spit curses through bared teeth.
The lycans have shred their bodies viciously, but the wounds are not fatal. Now my men seethe with vengeance, raging auras pulsing around their large forms as they ready themselves to rejoin this vicious fight. My mates are by my side, bloodied but unbroken.
“Because I didn’t keep the portal open long enough for the other lycans to get out, so now you want to kill me for it,” I reply. He spent years searching for someone like me and then spent more time trying to figure out how to open the portal. I’ve ruined his plans, and now that he has no use for me, he wants to take my life. “But I’m going to kill you instead.”
“There’s no way you can kill me, Kat. Your powers are useless against me. Your only hope was The Kiss of Death, and now that’s gone.” The shadow looms behind him ready to strike on Theo’s command.
I hate this man, and I will never get back the years I wasted with him. I want to be the better person and let him live, but as long as he’s alive, he’s a threat to my kids, and he won’t stop until he finds a way to kill me.
I need to end this now.
“Shred her to pieces,” Theo says as the two lycans run toward me.
At his command, two huge lycans sprint toward me, jaws gaping and claws outstretched. Moonlight glints off their jagged talons, now slick with fresh blood.
Time seems to slow. I brace myself, ready to meet their frenzied attacks head on. But before the beasts reach me, two forms collide with them from the side.
Ash, battered but unyielding, tackles one lycan in a blur. His fangs sink into a furry neck even as the lycan’s claws rake viciously across his back, opening savage gashes.
As the four of them fight viciously, more massive forms materialize from the darkness. A pack of four more lycans now prowl at the edges of the clearing.
The other lycan is intercepted by Joseph’s crushing charge. They slam to the ground in a frenzy of snapping teeth. Joseph’s arms swing again and again, black blood flying through the air with each savage chop.
After a few breathless moments, the lycan’s struggle grows weak, then it ceases altogether as Joseph’s relentless blows overwhelm it.
Ash’s fangs sink deeper into his opponent’s furry neck until, with a sickening crunch, the beast goes limp in his jaws, and both lycans lie unmoving in spreading pools of blood.
My gaze briefly lands on my mates fighting in human form trying to kill the four other lycans apart from the two that were standing next to him.
“Now it’s our chance to kill him,”my wolf says viciously.
Theo grabs me by my hair and throws me. Ouch! Fuck, that hurt. I land on my stomach, and before I can get up, he’s on me, fisting my hair and holding me in place. At this rate, he’s going to leave me bald.
This time, he pulls my body from the ground and throws me against a tree. I slide down on my butt, knowing it’s going to be bruised no matter how fast I heal.
I debate whether to shift into a wolf, but there’s no time to make a decision because he comes for me, but this time I’m prepared and ball my hand into a fist that connects with his nose. I hear a loud crack, but I don’t stop there. I hit him as though he’s the punching bag I use at the gym.
His face is a bloodied mess, but I still don’t stop releasing all of my aggression and anger. Even if I wanted to stop, I don’t think I could. My body is in a trance, and it only has one goal in mind, and that’s to end Theo’s life for good.
All the pain he’s put me through, all the shame, all the embarrassment. I will never again feel this way.
The black shadow looms over me, distorting my vision. I get off of Theo trying to fight it off.
