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.

Enzo lunged at

a snarling and slashing heap. Enzo was brutal, trying with all of his power to... Kill Matt. Matt was putting up a good fight, but I knew it would

screamed over the sudden din of growls and claws

had attracted attention. I heard the back door to the mansion fling open, and a moment later, my father, my mother, Lori and Jessica, and even Daphne and Luke came

and forth between the vicious fight unfolding in front of us and me and Tyler, who were the first at the

I said frantically, tears streaming

in. "He was saying stuff about

tugging at his sleeve and telling him to stay back, he wrenched

that

the battle only intensified. Enzo got a hold on Matt's haunch and ripped at him with his teeth, whipping him so hard

dripping with a combination of blood and saliva, were bared like

went flying once more; he wasn't fighting back, though, not really. He was just trying to survive. Behind me, Daphne shrieked and shifted

noticed her, even nearly

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. He really was trying to

darted past him as fast as I could,

he tried and failed

one last final scream, I leaped forward and landed on

shrieked, holding

friends and my parents were screaming in the background, but I didn't hear them anymore. My entire universe became nothing but fangs and blood

I held it out to stop him. Matt shuddered and sputtered beneath me,

happened. Slowly and tentatively, I cracked my eyes open to see the

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