Chapter 0394

Nina

I locked eyes with the rogue leader.

He was standing apart from the rest, and his glowing yellow eyes were fixed unwaveringly on me. I knew instantly from the way he looked at me, and the way that my wolf reacted strongly inside of me, that this was his plan all along. He thought that he could kill me while the rest of the rogues ambushed everyone else, but there was a crucial detail that he didn't know.

He didn't know that I had come prepared with my own plan, too.

"Nina!" Luke begged as he tugged at my arm. "Hurry! We have to go now! I know you want to stay and fight, but there are too many-"

I suddenly wrenched my arm free and whirled around to face Luke. "Go without me," I ordered him. "I'll meet up with you. I have to do something first."

Luke furrowed his brow and shook his head. He tried to grab me again, but I pulled away and continued to stare at him sternly.

"Go, Luke. I promise I'll meet up with you soon."

"Where are you going?" he asked, raising his voice over the sounds of screams, guns, and werewolf growls.

I looked back up at the rogue leader. He was stalking closer to me, slowly, with his hackles raised and his head lowered. His eyes never wavered away from me, and I swore I saw him lick his chops hungrily.

through my plan immediately. "I won't let you go off on some grand adventure. Right now, you need to listen to everyone else and get the hell out of here."

at Luke. Behind him, against the treeline that led to the campus, I could see Lori and Jessica watching from afar with wide eyes. They were waiting for me, having realized that humans were

okay," I assured him. "Please, just get Lori and Jessica to

heel and running off down the road. Luke's, Lori's, and Jessica's voices all echoed in the distance, but were soon overpowered by the sound of my shoes slamming against the pavement and my heavy breathing. I threw a last glance over my shoulder to see Luke ushering Lori and Jessica into a truck that someone had pulled up. Jessica screamed as the rogue leader leaped over the truck, narrowly

my breath, I picked up my pace and pushed my legs harder.

strength I need to run faster," I

"I'm on it."

I sprinted down the road faster than I ever thought possible. I glanced over my shoulder again to see

I picked up my speed even more and broke off of the road to go into the woods, crashing through the

little further, and then I could get the rogue

I leaped over a fallen tree. I lost

said out loud,

onto the ground, rolling down a small slope a little ways, and groaned as I dug

by saliva. I spit, and a wad of

Her voice was strange, as though it was fading in and out. One moment it was too loud, so loud that it rang in my ears and made me wince, and then the next moment it

this before... Was the Luna putting another spell on me? Was I

forest being destroyed as the rogue leader crashed through the underbrush searching for me. Groaning, I rolled up onto my feet and stumbled forward, using the trees to balance myself as half-ran through

the rough side of a tree. I clamped my hand over my mouth to muffle the cry of

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