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I turn away and walk down the hallway.
The hunters are dead.
It is done.
We won.
“Quinn, you can’t leave me here!” he bellows. “I did it for you!”
I sneer as the wolves part for me.
“Quinn, please! Please, we are pack!”
My wolf bays, wanting his head, but I resist, knowing this is torture for him. To be left alone to go mad, cut off from a pack? His wolf will eat him from the inside out until he’s begging for death.
I head upstairs, ready to double-check that the building is empty, but there is no noise bar my wolves following me.
The hunters are dead.
It’s a promise, a massacre, to warn any who may come after us wolves. It’s not enough, but it will have to do. I cannot hunt down every single hunter. I have a pack to run.
I turn to my wolves, smiling. “We did it! It’s over!”
A howl of celebration goes up as I grin, knowing Jang is looking down on me with pride.
CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
The squeal of tires cuts our celebration short as we peer through the open front doors in time to see trucks full of hunters heading our way. A coughing laugh comes from behind us from a dying man.
“We were just buying time,” the hunter sputters. “You’re all fucked now.”
With a snarl, Lucien smashes his foot into the man’s face, crushing his skull and silencing him right before bullets cut through the air. Jai grabs Quinn, throwing her into the stairs where the concrete protects us.
I quickly roll into the open doorway with Lucien. Others rush backwards, but they get hit, their wolf bodies jerking from the force of the machine gun tearing them apart. Their pained howls make my wolf cry in agony.
We hide until the bullets stop, the sound of truck doors banging open loud as I peer at Quinn where she crouches in human form. She nods to let me know she’s okay, and I breathe a little easier as I look around.
There’s a whole fucking army out there, and at the front is the one man you never want to see.
Sergeant Black.
His mouth is cut into a sinister smile from a witch’s blade, and he has more scars than any hunter alive, as well as more kills under his belt too. I’ve only met him once. He runs the entire northeast hunters guild, and he’s a killer through and through. A fucking psychopath.
They called him in, and now we are all fucked.
“We know you are in there. We also know you don’t have enough wolves to take us. You have two options—run with your tails tucked through the back door and maybe those who are fast enough will escape, or fight and die,” he calls as their vehicles’ headlights flood the parking lot. “You did a good job so far. I’m proud of how I trained my hunters, even if you are traitors, but it ends here, tonight.”
“Vale?” Quinn looks at me, glancing at the back door. “They’ll just hunt us forever, won’t they?”
I nod, knowing she’s right. They won’t let us get away. They can’t.
For a moment, her expression collapses, all hope fleeing before she rolls her shoulders back and blows out a breath. “Then so fucking be it. Tonight’s as good a night as any to die.” She looks at the wolves still left standing. “Anyone who wants to take that out, head through the back door now. Don’t go directly to the pack because they will track you. If you want, you can stay and fight with us. I won’t demand it since you have already given so much, and I cannot ask for more, but I also can’t think of a better group of people to die with. It has been an honour to serve you, to lead you, and to fight at your sides, and know we will meet again in the next life.”
My heart breaks, my soul screaming. I cannot lose Quinn. She deserves to live. She deserves a future. She deserves to lead her pack and find happiness. She deserves the things she wanted, they all wanted, before we brought this war to them, but we have no choice.
We are trapped, and we are going to die. At least we’ll die together so I won’t have to live a second without her.
She looks at me, licking her lips. “I’m sorry we didn’t get forever, but you have loved me more than most get in a lifetime.” She looks at Jai. “All of you, and I am honoured to have found you.” She glances at Lucien. “Even if it was just for a little bit, know that I’m honoured to have been loved by you and to love you. However this ends, they cannot take that away. Fill your hearts with love, not hate, and let us go out the way we came into this world—flame and pain.”
