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Panic like Elara must have felt when the wolf attacked her.
For a second the studio is gone, replaced by forests. Kade sees Elara walking down the road, calling for help, and then she turns. Her terrified eyes are on the wolf. She’s trying to run, trying to get away. Her screams echo in Kade’s mind as they spill out of his own mouth now.
After what seems like a lifetime, Guy drops Kade in a trembling heap on the floor. He scrambles away from him, his back hitting the mirrored wall behind him as he holds his arm to his chest defensively.
Guy shifts back, towering over him as he stalks forward. He’s backlit by the raging sunset, the only thing Kade can see is the bright shine of his white teeth as he grins. “You want to fight like you’re fighting an enemy, boy? Be prepared to defend yourself the same way.”
Guy kneels before Kade, grabbing his injured arm and tugging it away from his chest before he can protest. He yanks it up, examining it, and Kade’s mouth goes completely dry. There’s no blood, not a single puncture. There are red marks that will bruise, but Guy never broke the skin when he attacked.
“From now on, we duel as if it’s real. You want to be prepared? Come at me with everything you got. It’s time.” Guy nods as he stands, looking towards the sunset over the hills. “It’s a full moon tonight. Is she ready?”
“Can anyone ever be ready when they don’t know what’s about to happen?” Kade’s words come out as bitter as he feels, even as he didn’t mean to voice them.
Guy raises an eyebrow and glances at Kade from the corner of his eye as he folds his arms over his chest. “It’s what we must do,” he says stoically.
“It’s not right. I could have prepared her, I could have?—”
“You could have ruined everything,boy!”Guy snaps, waving his arms out as if demonstrating everything at risk. “Everything I’ve planned for, everything that must come to pass. If you do not get a hold of your emotions, it will all fail.”
Snarling at him, Kade makes his way across the studio and grabs his shirt and jacket, pulling them both on without removing his glare from his mentor's face. When his backpack is slung over his shoulder, he tips his chin up at him. “After tonight, she’ll know. After tonight, you can’t stop me from helping her.”
“You need to let it go, there’s no future in this for?—”
“Don’t say it, Guy. Just don’tfuckingsay it!” Kade clenches his fists at his side and glares at the ground. “I’m out of here. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Stay away from her, kid. It’s not worth it. She’s not worth it.”
Kade doesn’t dignify him with a response. He turns and storms out of the building, jogging over to his car and unlocking the door before ripping it open roughly and jumping in. He grips the steering wheel hard, slamming his palms into it over and over again.
He can’t bear to watch this all go wrong one more time…
He sees flashes of Melody, half transformed and dead. Her body mangled and eyes open, showing nothing but white.
He sees Gregory, fully transformed but weak, stumbling to the edge of a cliff and tumbling to his death because he was afraid of Kade.
He sees Alissa. She never even transformed, she never got to the full moon. Her wounds became infected and she died in her dorm room all alone.
This will not happen to Elara. Elara is the right one. Guy said they’re not wrong this time. Kade refuses for them to be wrong this time.
He turns the key and the engine roars to life, jerking the sedan into reverse and pulling out of the parking lot so fast that the tires smoke and leave black tracks on the ground. He glances up, seeing Guy run out like he’s trying to stop him.
He won’t let him.
The horizon is getting darker. Soon the full moon will crest and no new wolf under its light will be able to prevent the change. Elara won’t be able to stop it, and if she’s not somewhere safe…
He refuses to even think about it.
Her mom and dad.
No, he said he refuses!
They’re dead on the floor, slaughtered under a Christmas tree.
That’s what happened to Kade, it will not happen to her!
You did this… It’s your fault…
No, no, it’s Guy's fault!
