Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 459

Chapter 459: Lucas: Mastermind

Chapter 459: Lucas: Mastermind

LUCAS

A flash of fire erupts across the battlefield, and we snap our attention toward the source. Lisa stands with her magitech brace extended, her face fierce with concentration as a vampire falls back.

Kellan’s mate is more than just talk. Good to know.

Magister Orion extends his hand, and the same vampire’s head explodes.

Huh. Ava can really choose her friends.

Another vampire lunges at us, teeth bared. Aurum drives his shoulder into the creature’s abdomen. The momentum carries us to the ground, but we’re on top, pinning it with our weight.

Aurum drives our claws deep into his chest before ripping his heart out with a strong snap of his jaws. Bone and organ come out together. Bloodsuckers might be strong, but their bone density isn’t any different than an average human’s.

But Aurum’s bite has far more force than the average shifter, thanks to his alpha bloodline.

Something else is here, my wolf says, his hackles up as he bounds to the next victim, knocking down a vamp with an arm through one of an unshifted wolf’s chest.

Justin slides to the ground, eyes already glazed in death. But there’s no time to mourn in battle.

Something’s watching. Something powerful.

A chill crawls across my skin despite the heat of combat. I trust Aurum’s instincts without question, but I don’t sense what he does.

Stay together,

I call out through the pack link, but orders can only do so much at this stage.

There. Aurum turns his head to the eastern edge of the clearing. I can smell it.

A figure stands, watching the carnage from a safe distance. Tall. Despite the cold, he’s dressed in a suit, his shirt bloody and torn and one of his pants legs ripped clean off.

His face is unnaturally beautiful, and silver hair flows over his shoulders. Vampire, obviously.

He’s smiling.

he says, his voice somehow

my bones. Aurum growls, teeth bared and hackles

behind me; Lisa. As expected, then,

stranger’s smile widens.

sounding as close to panicked as I’ve ever heard him. Even when he first learned of his

a faint red light. "I suggest you

prince gestures lazily. From the trees emerge more vampires—dozens

He’s come up behind

Aurum observes

the noise. The vampire crooks

his anguish overpowering his pain as he

his eyes glaze and lips curl with rapture. "Come to

"Never."

dissipate midair. It misses me by mere centimeters, leaving my

half alive. I can’t spare the time to look back and see if she’s okay; I leave her

his hands. "He is

crimson. We’ve reached a strange stalemate. Wounded vampires have retreated to join their reinforcements, and I can sense my

many are already gone, but none have lost their will

close," Magister Orion says, calm despite the odds we’re facing. "The spell I’m preparing won’t discriminate between friend

ears

Prince’s now-black hair shifts in a wind known only to him. No one else’s clothes flutter, and there’s no breeze; it’s eerie. Some strange vampire magic, I presume, though

command. Break formation

in from

he prowls. Two paces toward Orion. Then three paces toward Clayton. Back and forth, fighting the urge to rush toward our

feel his blood on my tongue, rip his skin with my teeth. Crack

control I’ve been maintaining, letting my alpha power flood

using his own alpha aura as a shield, wrapping it around his Aspen wolves. Smart. I can sense

of the vampires stagger under its weight, and the Mad Prince’s eyebrows lift. "Oh? You’re an impressive dog, but

I can’t look back to check on her, but Kellan’s anguish overpowers even the scent of blood and

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