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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to me. As the tears streamed down my

his eyes had slipped away,

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

Damian’s brothers resonated through the air. The mo ment his heart stopped beating, we felt the snap of his bond, and with

controlled, and with him gone, the circle is no longer

circle… that was

killed because they thought it would cut 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

be closed, and nothing you can do will open it.”

was talking about or why this man would act the way he did, but as I tried to calm my racing mind,

free. “What portal?”

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

midnight blue hair hung loosely down over his shoulders were the first things that caught

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

you, exactly? Because nothing about

that’s a shame,” he replied with a

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 the pow er within me

was going to kill him. “You

you?”

the circle is broken,

battle com menced again. Some of my

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wolves pushed from the treeline.

inside me. A power that had been slowly growing over time. Slowly leaking out and

was darkness… perhaps I was

was revenge for my fallen mate. Revenge for the man I

did, he tried to shield himself and failed. Step by step, I moved closer, watching him struggle under me

her, watching as she stared at me, baring her teeth. Her golden wolf

charged at me, and as she did, I slid past her, twisting and turning with every snap of

my tail. | wasn’t sure where the man had gone, but after | dealt with

flying to the ground, but as I turned

eyes. “Are you ready to

her, I jumped onto her back,

fell to the ground with a pop and a yelp, and I stood staring down at her slowly shifting body. She lay

with venom. “You have caused far too much damage to my family for me to al low you to go free. This time, I will make sure that

eyes fed the primal animal inside me. Blood lust filled me, and her fear made

was dead, and killing her caused a loud roar

man, and his glaring gaze stared at