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Turning back with a wicked grin, I slink towards the bleeding hunter. He crawls backwards to escape me. I taunt him, pretending to lunge. His arm comes up, and I keep walking. He stops when he hits a post.

“You stupid fucking mutt?—”

I lunge.

He never gets to finish his words because I clamp my muzzle around his jaw and bite down. He screams as I yank back, taking half his face with me, exposing muscle, tendon, teeth, and bone. His eyes roll around, and I let him suffer as I spit his skin onto his bleeding knees, and then I slice my claws down his chest, deep enough to hurt but not to kill.

I drag it out, making him suffer like my father suffered.

The last thing he sees will be me.

He will die of terror for harming my family.

He’s still screaming and bleeding as I cut his entire body, tearing him up until I finally bite down on his neck and slowly shut my jaw, letting him feel every agonising inch as I decapitate him.

Ripping off his head, I drop it to the ground and turn back, changing and getting to my feet.

I see Lucien and Vale prowling towards me as wolves, Jai at their side with the stolen gun in tow. He whistles at the body as I drop the head. “That was a masterpiece.” He nods.

“There are more. I can smell them over the blood,” I begin, my voice hoarse, and then an alarm blares, alerting any hunters who are left in the building. With a grin at Vale and Lucien, I turn and shift, racing towards the incoming stampede of feet. I hear them growl and burst into a sprint behind me, heading towards them as well.

I glance up and see Jai climbing the cells before crouching, his gun up and aimed at the open steel doors we cannot see from our positions.

I charge as they march through the door, the alarm cutting out, but their screams now fill the air as three wolves hit them. I feel blades slicing at my side and bullets whizzing by, but I don’t care.

I give into my bloodlust.

The echo of my father’s screams and the sight of his dead, empty eyes spur me on.

I want more death and blood.

I drown in their screams and bathe in their agony. I wash away my pain with theirs.

One tries to crawl away, but I drag him back even as a net wraps around me. I don’t stop, instead tearing through him and eating him alive while he screams. The net gives, and I glance back to see Jai with a machete, and with a wink at me, he spins.

I watch the artist work, and I’m glad we aren’t enemies anymore. He’s part animal, part human, and he uses that.

He slices throats and guts them, watching as their intestines fall to the floor, and he laughs the entire time.

Lucien throws a hunter into the air and catches him with a leap, ragging his body side to side. Vale is facing down four and holding his own, and I know this is where they are supposed to be—at my side.

Turning back to the hunters, I growl and leap once more, throwing myself into the fray. I use my grief and pain to fuel me until I cannot move without being weighed down by the bodies I have killed.

Spinning with a snarl, I eye the corpses, searching for any that might move, but every single hunter is dead. Jai walks through the bodies, shooting them in the heads just in case, and I head over, searching for a target.

I need more, but they are dead. We killed them all, and I have to bite back my disappointment and anger.

I finally turn around, elegantly stepping over missing limbs and blood until I stand at their sides, eyeing the massacre before us, and that’s what this is—a massacre.

Even with their weapons, they didn’t stand a chance against us.

Not after what they did.

“Now what?” Vale asks, all of us covered in blood and naked bar Jai.

“Now, we send a message.” I turn back around and wade through the bodies and gore to pick up the head.

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE

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