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He meets my eyes with a knowing look. “We are all but creatures of moonlight, born into destinies we know nothing about. This world is a huge, mysterious place, yet there are three things I know for certain. One, I was meant to be that girl’s father. Two, she will be the most magnificent alpha this world has ever seen. Three, you do not betray your own people for just an ideal. You do it to save someone you care about. Now, you might not have realised or even admitted it, but it’s the truth. Destiny is guiding your hand, and now I have to ask this of you.”
“We will do everything to keep her safe,” I respond gruffly.
“Good, that’s good.” He nods. “She won’t make it easy. She never does.” He grins. “She has always been so brave and strong-willed. She takes after her father that way, but she has her mother’s kind heart. I miss them terribly, and so does she.” I wince at that, as does Vale, and Jang smiles sadly. “We cannot undo the past, but we can change our future. We can atone for the sins of our fathers and make them right, even when we don’t think we can.” He changes before our eyes, becoming a huge black wolf—one we saw chasing after Quinn when we kidnapped her. He gives us a sharp, knowing look and heads to his people.
“He couldn’t be more wrong,” Vale scoffs. “We are doing this to save our souls.”
I nod, but my eyes cut to Quinn, wondering if he was right.
Since the moment I met her, all I seem to do is defend and save her where I can, like there is a tether between us that has always been there, even when it shouldn’t.
Is that destiny or a heart’s desire?
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
The trees rustle before me, and I snarl, prepared to leap, but it’s our advanced team, our warning system. They spring through the tree line, sliding to a stop, panting and covered in blood.
There are only five.
There were twenty.
Fuck!
“How far?” Jang barks, changing back to human form to engage with them.
“Right behind us,” one answers as he changes back. “Maybe a couple of minutes. They killed everyone else.”
Jang growls and turns to us. “Ready yourselves! For our pack! For our people!”
We tip our heads back and howl once more, a last warning for them.
They might be hunters, but we are wolves.
We remain silent after that, waiting under the full moon for the hunters to arrive. What should be a happy night of running and hunting was already ruined, but now, before it dips below the horizon and the sun rises, everything will have changed.
I feel it in my gut.
I keep my breathing even although adrenaline and the need to hunt makes me impatient, and when I hear the first hunter, I almost yip in victory. They are trying to be silent, but we can hear them as they spread out.
Like Vale predicted, they try to climb trees. I know because there’s a scream and a thud, which sounds like a body falling, and then more follow. Suddenly, the hunters burst from the tree line, their guns up and ready to fire. When they see us, their eyes widen, but I don’t focus on them.
I attack. They are my enemy.
Screams ring out as we leap at the hunters coming to kill us. More pour from the forest, the ones who make it past those in the trees. Guns fire, the smell awful and noise loud. I hear a wolf whine, but I don’t have time to look.
I have to focus.
The first hunter I hit is an older man with a scarred face, and he goes down hard way too slow. I taste his blood before I hear his scream cut off. It gurgles as I rip out his throat and turn, leaping at the next hunter, slashing my claws across him as he falls back.
I hear more shots, one whizzing above me, and I jerk my head around to see Vale holding a rifle, firing at the incoming hunters above me. I nod in thanks and turn back just in time to dodge a hunter coming towards me.
I bring my head up, ignoring the gun so close to me, and bite the hunter’s cock. He screams as he falls forward, but I rip through his trousers, tasting blood and skin, and when I tear my head away, his cock comes with me. I spit it out with a growl and leap at him, digging my claws into his chest, and then I bite his face off before rolling away from another shot and coming up behind a young hunter struggling with his gun.
I headbutt his legs, and he falls just as his head explodes. I glance over to see Jai with a gun pointed right at him, and hewinks at me before turning to punch another hunter trying to get past him to the wolves.
“Traitor!” I hear someone yell, but I tune them out.
Instead, I nip at a hunter’s side. The middle-aged man glares at me, wielding a knife, and I back away, my head lowered as those around him notice and turn to me—a woman and four men. Perfect.
