Chapter 0742

Nina

"If you want to take my pack and my wife, you'll have to fucking kill me."

Tyler and I stood in the window, watching the scene on the lawn unfolding below us. Matt and Enzo were both circling one another, their stances lowered as though they were preparing for a fight.

"Are they about to fight?" Tyler asked, glancing over at me warily. "Why?"

"I don't know." I was already setting down my mug of cocoa and storming over to the door. "But I'm about to stop them."

Without another moment of hesitation, Tyler and I flew down the corridor, down the stairs and out onto the back lawn. We were just sprinting around the corner of the building, calling out to Matt and Enzo just as they were about to fight.

"Enzo! Matt!" I cried out, stopping a few yards from them. "What the hell are you doing?!"

"Nina," Matt breathed, his eyes still locked on Enzo. "I don't know what's gotten into him. You have to tell him that I'm not "

"You shut up," Enzo growled. Spittle flew out of his mouth as he spoke, his voice hardly more than a growl. His eyes were glowing; he was about to shift.

"Enzo," I said as I tentatively took a few steps forward, holding out my palms in a placating gesture. "You're not acting like yourself. Why don't we all just calm down and talk about whatever is going on?"

But Enzo didn't listen. Suddenly, I felt Tyler's hand on the back of my shirt, pulling me back just in time before Enzo shifted into his wolf form. Matt cursed under his breath and shifted, too—once again just in time.

lunged

a snarling and slashing heap. Enzo was brutal, trying with all of his power to... Kill

the sudden din of

open, and a moment later, my father, my mother, Lori and Jessica, and

my father boomed, looking wildly back and forth between the vicious fight unfolding in front of us and me and Tyler, who were

frantically, tears streaming down my cheeks. "We

Tyler chimed in. "He was saying stuff

at his sleeve and telling him to stay back, he wrenched free from her grip and stormed up

boomed in that commanding voice

they were ignoring him. In fact, the battle only intensified. Enzo got a hold on Matt's haunch and ripped at him with his teeth, whipping him so hard that he

his feet. His teeth, dripping with a combination of blood and saliva, were bared like

wasn't fighting back, though, not really. He was just trying to survive. Behind me, Daphne shrieked and shifted into her bird form, fluttering

use. They hardly noticed her, even nearly

them," I breathed, finally managing to pull myself away from Tyler. "He's going to kill Matt!" Before Tyler or anyone else could stop me, I began running forward. Up ahead, I saw Enzo pin Matt down to the ground, his teeth snapping at Matt's throat.

out, reaching for me. I darted past him as fast as I could, using my

daggers. Matt's chest heaved as he tried and failed to push Enzo away, to keep him from biting

I leaped forward and landed on top of Matt.

holding out

I think my friends and my parents were screaming in the background, but I didn't hear them anymore. My entire universe

my hand trembling as I held it out to stop him. Matt shuddered and sputtered beneath me,

Slowly and tentatively, I cracked my eyes open to see the world coming back into

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