The Traitor's Mate in the Apocalypse

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n the taste of bloo

into skin that should have been torn open.

ving the order, the pack elders watching in silence, the first

single bed that smelled like dust and old laundry. This wasn't the

ineteen

wolf under my skin. No power humming in my blood. Just a

window, some

floor. I grabbed the only jacket hanging on the chair, shoved my feet

smelled like smoke a

od running down her arm. "They're in th

Something heavy slammed against t

ay my new legs burned. My old body could have cleared the entire

ching. A man in a delivery uniform stumbled through the broken glass doors, eye

swung it as hard as I could. The crack of impact traveled up my arms. The thing

from fear. From the memory

Cars sat abandoned with doors still open. People ran i

fe the Northern Pack had used that route to evacuate civilians before they decided civilians were no

ost m

One still wore a security guard uniform. The other two looked like s

brick. No way left. No way right.

way Ravenna had been trained to. It worked-barely. The second one caught my jacket an

ed inches f

buying seconds I didn't have. The thir

g growl cut t

and tore it sideways. Two more shapes moved past me in a blur of muscle and fur.

yself up o

gold. The one in front was taller than the rest. Broad shoulders. Black hair pushed back l

an D

ch turne

ordered my death. Same cold eyes. Same co

coming w

ords left my mouth bef

ke my chances

idn't look away from me. His gaze moved over the torn jacket, th

en minutes out here," he

'm not

could feel the dominance rolling off him-the same pressure that used to make lesser wolv

u can walk to the vehicle,

dy moving between the cars. The sun was going down. In

ited for my answer. I hated that in thi

three days of the outbreak went for

my mouth with the bac

in

nd me like a living cage. We moved fast through the side streets until a bla

without loo

er's seat. Kieran sat in the front passenger side, already speaking in

ad and let the hate settle int

nough to die for the pack he led. He ha

story would en

s and watched the burning city slide past. My voi

ered, "I will be the