#Chapter 195: Finishing Move

Moana

Edrick stood, pushing his sleeves up to his elbows. “I guess we are gonna have a round two,” he said.

Ethan’s bloodied face flashed with what looked like fear. Around us, the Rogues seemed to notice Edrick’s surge in strength. In a flurry of frightened yips and snarls, the Rogues took off in their wolf forms, leaving only Ethan to deal with.

“I got this,” Edrick said, holding his hand out to the cops before they could jump in and restrain Ethan. I continued to kneel on the floor, completely in awe of Edrick’s strength. He looked bigger, even physically, since I marked him.

Suddenly, Edrick rushed at Ethan with a speed that I had never seen before. Ethan didn’t even have time to react before Edrick slammed him to the ground so hard that the floor around him cracked. I gasped, jumping to my feet as I clamped my hand over my mouth. Had he killed him?

I heard Ethan groan, and saw him move. Thankfully, he wasn’t dead. Edrick picked him up by a fistful of his shirt and growled something in his ear before dropping him back to the floor. He stepped away from Ethan and allowed the cops to restrain him, and as they did he came back to me and pulled me tightly into his arms.

stroking my hair as

back to his natural icy blue color, but there was something else there now. I could sense immense love coming from Edrick’s gaze. He kissed my forehead gently, then cupped

“Are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” I said. “Kelly knocked me out earlier

checked my head. Thanks to my wolf growing in strength from marking him, though, my head was healed. There wasn’t even a bump or a bruise, whereas before I had felt a splitting headache

Edrick and I watched as they led him out of the warehouse, reading him his Miranda Rights. “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in the

him over to one of their cars. He seemed defeated; he knew what his fate was now. He would go to prison for what he did. As Edrick and I stood in the flashing blue and red lights of the police cars, we saw an ambulance pull up. Several EMT’s got out and rushed up to us and began to ask us a million questions while a few more ran inside with a stretcher. By the time they came out with Kelly on the stretcher, she was waking

their car door and began to push Ethan inside. That was the only time he struggled, just for a moment: “Moana!” he shouted, yanking against the cops

into the cop car. Edrick’s arm tightened around me protectively, and although the scene was a cacophony of noise as everyone rushed around,

it in anymore. I turned toward Edrick and opened my mouth to begin telling him everything about how I tried to run away — but

he said gently. “I know you have a lot to tell me, but

waved us over to his car, and as we approached, I let out a massive sigh of relief to see Ella still

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