Bad Love an Alpha’s Regret by Elise Sinclair

Chapter 181

I get a split second to hear answering howls in the distance-Roberts pack members and the few guys I brought with me from the Rathbom pack-before the enemy wolves descend in a rush of snarling, glowing eyes and bared teeth.

I’m smaller than them, but I quickly realize I’m also faster.

I dodge snapping teeth and raking claws, but there’s too many of them, and eventually I have to fight.

I go low, clamping my jaws around a leg and biting down until I feel bones breaking. I lunge at another and bite its underbelly. But they’re circling and the next wave, I’m forced to defend more than attack because they are coming at me three at a time.

I bite and slash, kicking out and clawing.

My limbs are an endless fury of motion, slashing and tearing, never stopping lest they get a hold of me, and by sheer numbers, I’ll

be overcome.

except

growl, and another wolf

recognize-huge, silver, with darker fur around his muzzle and ears-begins attacking the wolves

and relentless, tearing through the other wolves at inhuman speed, and for the first time I think I

at me, catching me on the shoulder and I

wolf-face and chest now covered in dark crimson blood-lunges toward

into me.

seem to finally get a hint that they’re outmatched,

back, panting,

how close I came to being killed

I can hear the howls of