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.

nothing except doing whatever it takes to stay alive.

growl, and another wolf comes streaking

I don’t recognize-huge, silver, with darker fur around his muzzle and ears-begins attacking the wolves who are trying to hurt

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

me on the shoulder and I can’t

covered in dark crimson blood-lunges toward

into me.

aren’t already dead seem to finally get a hint that they’re outmatched,

as they’re gone, I shift back, panting, feeling nauseous at the blood spattered all over me.

came to being

howls of the Roberts and Rathborn wolves getting closer.

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