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.

thinking of nothing except doing whatever it takes to stay alive.

hear a vicious growl, and another wolf comes streaking out of the woods.

enemy wolves are attacking, but this new wolf I don’t recognize-huge, silver, with darker fur

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

wolf snaps at me, catching me on the shoulder and I can’t help but yelp.

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

into me.

get a hint that they’re outmatched, and turn tail,

shift back, panting, feeling nauseous at the blood

how close I came to being killed on my own family’s landa.

can hear the howls of the Roberts and Rathborn