CHER

arp pain on

der a jagged hook tha

Four of Logan's

g each other's weaknesses, expl

ash!" one of them sc

t two more took his place. A claw raked d

was

ve finished with Lo

e to see a blur of fur

ain, pinning the traitor to the dirt. His massive wolf for

e shouted. "Don't

lled, his voice straining

was fast

bulged unnaturally, veins standing out like black rivers under his skin. Whatever enhan

him like he weighed nothing. Logan was huge, fueled by wha

los into a tre

exploded outward, and I heard ribs

I sc

help him, to rip Logan's throa

in my mind. Her scent. It was strawberries

hing fundamental had shifted in my universe. She wasn't just be

ar apart anyone who stood between us and her. The ratio

he was getting farther away

toward Logan,

ammed into the b

one of my knives. Stars burst behind

n," a voi

ling my breath. I hit the dirt

body wouldn't cooperate. The silver in my system fo

ight back, they were binding me. Heavy, rusted iron wr

blood. These chains had bound others

blood. "You're dead!

human form, naked and covered in blo

inst my ears like na

red. "The Belmont p

sted copper. Something cracked ins

"The girl is waiting at Port Alva

ood f

picked up, an object to be examined-made rage floo

.." I choked out,

again, signaling his men to retreat. They l

lder. "She's pretty, even with that scar. Might keep her for mys

hrough the trees long

ell over

owed instantly by a wave of

hed us off. That

e trash. He thought

as w

etc

ame from

, forcing my body t

rel

od, but his eyes were clear. He'd shifted back, and I could see the d

ispered, the words

ting his broken leg. It snapped back into

r in her eyes. The scar that only made her more beauti

el her. A golden thread connecti

" I said, clutching the

ze, understanding d

led. "She is m

idened. He knew

eclared war on an Alpha. He had stolen the one thin

s on my back were already knitting together, the itch of sup

g at her... it made my vision turn red. M

his voice hard. "We can't just

e go back to Centro Villa. We gather

bloodbath,"

my lip. I looked toward the nort

feel her fear like it was my own

he world apart

," I

nting in the moonlight. My hands wer

n today. He thin

lf rising to the surface,

aren't just goin

d on a spike. Imagining his fortress burning,

burn Port Alvar