Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 209

There, crouched low and quivering in fear is the small rabbit that thought it could escape me. It tries to blend into the undergrowth but its thumping heart gives it away. This creature is nothing more than prey – yet Soren’s words echo in my head.

I can feel every instinct begging me to strike, to seize this creature between my teeth and shake until it’s still and its blood floods my mouth. That urge tinges everything red… Something warm splats my face, making me realize I am not picturing that urge I had enacted, the crunch sound is the rabbit’s lifeless form as my teeth savagely ripped into it.

I take a step back, dropping the lifeless body from my jaws in shock. My heart pounds against my ribcage, the coppery scent of blood sending waves of guilt crashing down onto me. What had I done? Noise sounding behind me has me twisting to find the intruder.

I turn to see Soren standing at the periphery, his eyes locked onto mine with an unreadable expression drawn on his face. As if on cue, a great horned owl screeches somewhere off in the distance, its echoing cry piercing through the silence.

“I… I didn’t mean to,” I whimper, a shiver creeping up my spine from the intensity of Soren’s gaze. His eyes soften then, nderstanding seeping into his gaze as he takes a step

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“Maybe it’ll be alright?” I tell him, moving toward the rabbit. I try to make it sit upright but it falls on its side, its dead eye peering up at me.

“Aubrey, it’s dead.”

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sound amplified twigs cracking under Soren’s boots as he walked closer, the flutter of wings of an owl taking flight.

go home,” I murmur, in horror at what I did. What if he had a bunny

says softly, he picks up the dead rabbit. “You did good,” I

“I killed it.”

did, but how many times did you kill rabbits

that was the full moon, I also don’t remember doing it.” I

control, but until

my fault I…!” his Calling slips out and my thoughts jumble momentarily when

he says, tossing his shirt aside, revealing his muscled abs. He undoes the button on his pants and the zip, his pants fall to the ground and

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them, I quickly avert my gaze knowing the poor forest creatures don’t need to witness a bizarre forest

on, you’re distracting me.” i growl at him but