And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 113: Vengeance is Best Served Cold

James.

When Damian was killed, I felt like a piece of me had been ripped away. I wasn’t sure how it had been possible, but my brother had been taken from me, and I let out a howl of de spair into the air.

Ivy’s scream shook all of us and not just the wolves of her pack but those of our enemies as well. I never heard anything like it before, but watching her drop to her knees next to Damian, crying, nearly killed me.

‘They will all die for this.’ Talon said through our link.

‘Kill them all.’ Hale replied with a snarl.

War had come for us, and regardless of the situation, we weren’t going to let them get away with killing Damian. We weren’t going to let them get away with anything.

Before I could step forward, a force surrounded me, hold ing me in place. I tried with all my might to move, but I could not. And suddenly, a shift was forced over me, turning me back into the human body I usually held.

‘What’s going on?!’ | yelled through the link. ‘Something made me shift back.’

‘Me too.’ Talon growled.

‘It seems it has for all of us. Something is happening.’ Hale replied.

He wasn’t wrong. Something was happening.

A buzzing under my skin started to burn like fire, and a voice deep inside me spoke with it. ‘It’s almost time.’

What was almost time? Was this the beast lvy freed?’.

I tried to fight against what was happening but was un able. A force pushed against me, and the beast came forward snarling. Watching, I saw the wolves of our enemies stepping backward. Their ears lay back as they seemed to look at each other with confusion and uncertainty.

It was obvious I was something to fear. Something they shouldn’t get involved with, and I would tear them apart with my new form.

My eyes cast towards where Ivy was, and watching, I saw the power building within her. She was magnificent, and though I couldn’t hear what she was saying, the moment a roar sounded and the wolves started the battle once more, she shot a source of power toward the man in front of her with fury.

“Kill them all.”

My beast growled before he threw himself at our enemies, slowly tearing them apart. His hunger for blood was a feeling! would never be able to forget.

Ivy. 

When Damien died, chaos consumed my soul like nothing I had ever felt before. A scream ripped through me I wasn’t

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down my face, fell to my knees before

eyes had slipped away, and with

one would want to kill him. Trying to understand why they hated us so much. Just because we were different. “What have you

howls of mourning from our pack members and Damian’s brothers resonated through the air. The mo ment his heart stopped beating, we

with him gone, the circle is no

was what this

the circle and diminish everything. They were fucking idiots. As my eyes snapped to him with hatred and anger in my gaze, 1 contemplated his words. “What do you mean, the circle is

do will open it.” His words

way he did, but as I tried to calm my racing mind,

free. “What portal?”

a sly grin, the haze washed over him like a waterfall, washing away debris. He changed before my eyes, and as he came back into view, the man standing before me

first things that caught my attention.

him was familiar, and his mischievous grin let me know he had expected this reaction. “The portal that

are you, exactly? Because nothing about you

a shame,” he replied with a

for him. While I was here falling apart at the loss of my mate in front of me, he was relishing the de struction he caused. Standing to my feet slowly, I let

kill him. “You have no idea who I

you?”

eyebrow, the corner of his lip twitched at my response. “You’re the goddess of Earth… or so they have pro claimed. But now the circle is broken, you will never reach that potential. The portal will never open, and I will rule over this realm.

and the battle com menced again. Some of my warriors were caught off guard

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pushed from the

what you think,” I snarled as my eyes washed over black, releasing the power inside me. A power that had been slowly growing over time. Slowly

was darkness… perhaps

for my fallen mate. Revenge for the man I lost and the men I

shield himself and failed. Step by step, I moved closer, watching him struggle under me before a hit from my side sent me spiraling through the air, hitting the

at me, baring her teeth. Her golden wolf was

her, twisting and turning with every snap of her jaw. I wasn’t going to let her get me, and movement after movement, I pushed

her hot on my tail. | wasn’t sure where the man had gone, but after | dealt with her, he was going to

side sent me flying to the ground, but as I turned on my knees, I stared at the salivating wolf

“Are you ready to

lunged, which was her biggest mistake. Grabbing her, I jumped onto her back, wrapping my arms around her neck, slowly crushing her windpipe as she tried desperately to throw

a pop and a yelp, and I stood staring down at her slowly shifting body. She lay there, eyes wide, gasping

far too much damage to my family for me to al low you

at her, the look in her eyes fed

her caused a loud roar of anger

and his glaring gaze stared