And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 92: Understanding Death

Talon.

When Ivy glared at me and told me the woman was hers, I knew without a doubt that something terrible was about to happen. Without even a warning, she took off in a full sprint as fast as she could from the property. The car had long sped away down the driveway but knowing Ivy, that wouldn’t stop her.

“We have to stop her,” James cried out. “She’s pregnant, and she hurt the babies,”

James had a point. Damien wasn’t here yet. Hale was in town until the end of the day. James was a good man and was too able to take care of a lot. But he didn’t have the power needed to subdue Ivy like this.

Shifting into my wolf, I took off across pack territory, darting over the lawns down the hills towards the woods where Ivy had disappeared through. I had to find her. I couldn’t let her do something she would absolutely regret. Even though she was the same person, she just seemed to have this alter ego that pushed through, making her more dominant when she shifted.

I knew deep down she would feel nothing but guilt if she ended up killing this woman. It would be the first person she had physically killed.

That sort of thing was never easy for anyone.

Catching her scent, I moved faster, pushing myself as hard as I could, her body coming into the distance as I kept trekking over the lands until, abruptly, she stopped. Not wanting her to know I was chasing after her, I halted in my position, hiding behind the shrubbery of the woods, watching her, waiting to see what she was going to do.

She was hunting, seeking this woman as if this woman was an elk that became her prey.

There was no stopping a wolf when it was in mid-hunt. They were dangerous, primal, and very territorial.

With Ivy not technically being a wolf, but being something else entirely-there was no telling what she could do.

The mind link that linked my brothers and me and even Ivy was going wild. However, Ivy’s side was dormant. She had closed herself off in order to focus, and I had to push back mine in order to focus on her.

‘Where are you?’ Damien pushed through the link, using his alpha tone, catching me by surprise. ‘Currently about 5 miles north of the pack. She’s hunting!

‘She already ran five miles? There’s no way she was able to do that. Are you sure of your location?’ Damien snapped.

Did he really, honestly, think I didn’t know where I was? 

I grew up on these lands. These woods were my gain out of the four of us. I was the more primal hunter. There was no way they would know these woods better than I did.

‘Are you seriously going to f*****g ask me that question?’

Silence met me, and at the moment I had been dealing with Damian, Ivy bolted without warning, running north, deeper and deeper into the darkness and thicket of the woods. I followed her.

from the sunlight, where creatures usually blended in with the darkness. Watching

knew what she was, and they themselves found her terrifying because right now, the shift she had made was nothing like I

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seen before.

a sea of light that didn’t exist from

was elegant and as graceful as a fairy. But yet as quick and as dangerous as a wolf. Entranced by who she was and the fact that she was my mate, I didn’t dare stop her. I didn’t care

may be a point where I could try to talk sense into her, but the time was not. Now, that was very obvious. After a little while, she came to

cabin sat alone within the darkness; the only light in that cabin came from the single pane window near the front

came directly from the council to see us was only 20 miles north of where we actually lived, and

was the elder here? This was not

concealed myself, tracking her the entire time I had been doing so. But as she stopped in her tracks, her hand upon the trunk of a tree,

was there the entire time, and not once did she stop me? What was she waiting

taunted me, egging me on to play with her and I was shocked she had opened the link just enough for

cannot be in a fight. Think about

found nothing but amusement in my words. ‘Do

that doesn’t mean that they won’t do something that could intentionally hurt them.

is where you’re wrong.

I could process, she disappeared from my sight, and it wasn’t until I heard the shrill screams, growls, and cries from within the cabin I realized

hunts. It wasn’t because she was slow, and we were fast enough to keep up with her. It was because she wanted us

back into my human form, I ran naked towards the cabin, throwing open the door that was barely cracked, only to find the bloodiest scene I have ever seen before

people within this cabin. Two of

to the tips of her fingers. She was soaked in red, and the most peculiar thing of all was she had a satisfied grin on her face as she swallowed down a

I exclaimed in shock, with my eyes wide, and an unfamiliar sense of confusion flowed over me I had

with a smirk as her eyes panced towards the elder and another man,

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JL.

did you just swallow? If you didn’t just eat

“This one tastes different. The other two are wolves and I have no interest in eating the flesh of my ancestors, but that one. That one

almost like riddles. I knew there were other supernatural creatures out there. Everybody was aware of that, but the problem was they rarely come by. So much

asked as I stepped forward, looking down at

from side to side, she stepped towards the creature and bent to her knees before her hand reached out and grabbed its face,

what it is, but it tastes