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Chapter 190-1
Troy
Pulling free from our captors, London and I raced up the hill. He got to Lunessa and yanked her
from the stone before I could reach Kiana. A large, mutated wolf pounced at Kiana, and I dove into
him. Teeth and claws raked into the flesh of my human form, but I ignored it. There was only one
truth. If I didn’t get to Kiana, she would be torn limb from limb.
Shifting faster than I’d ever shifted in my life, I turned and raced back to her. With a roar, I pulled her
chains from the rocks with my paws and turned back to her.
“T-Troy,” she whispered and sank into the ground. “I’m sorry. I don’t think I can w-walk, let alone
shift. H-Help Finn.”
Finn didn’t need my help. He was ripping through wolves at an alarming rate. I wasn’t even sure he
knew what he was doing.
Kiana flinched, and I turned as another wolf tried to pounce. Ripping my claws into their flank, we
tumbled, but as soon as I found my footing, I returned to her side!
If she couldn’t shift, she would be vulnerable, but I would defend her until my last breath.
Suddenly, she was surrounded by wolves. My wolves. Saul. Amelia. Willa. Jenson. Howling, they formed a ring and lowered their stance. Their posture was clear.
She was ours, and we would never give her up.
I caught sight of Irene, Janelle, and Ava in their own circle. Whatever they were doing caught hold of the remained witches, and their screams could be heard over the chaos as they stumbled.
And the wolves kept fighting.
Elonso was down below, bellowing orders to my warriors, organizing them.
On the other side, Finn kept slaughtering. Our bond had snapped in half the moment he killed Claudine, and I couldn’t feel him anymore. I knew exactly what that meant even if he didn’t. He probably didn’t even know what he was fighting for. He’d been close to death before he killed Claudine, and I had no idea how much longer he would last, but I couldn’t intervene.
I wasn’t allowed to intervene.
Blood flowed down from the mountain, but not in how Claudine had envisioned it. Her wolves were
weakening. In drugging them, she’d essentially killed them. My wolves were just making it happen
sooner.
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Then, it was quiet. There were groans and whimpers, but the fighting was over. Any of Claudine’s
wolves who weren’t dead were on their backs, belly-up in surrender.
Below me, a lone figure caught my attention, and I growled softly as I felt her presence.
Saris.
So, she’d come after all. Had she done whatever had broken Claudine’s spell? Had she interfered
after all?
In human form, Elonso made the long climb up. “Indigo Peak!” he shouted. “A new alpha has
arisen. Accept his bond or die!”
Finn’s wolf’s head snapped up in surprise, and London and I howled in acceptance.
Slowly, wolf-by-wolf, the surviving members of Indigo Peak who were in attendance followed suit.
“The son will kill the mother,” Kiana whispered behind me.
It was never about our baby. It was always about Finn. From the moment I met him, I’d sensed his alpha power inside of him.
I always knew that one day he would be even more powerful than me.
And I hoped that was true, because Indigo Peak had a rough road ahead of them.
Water poured from the skies as Kiana and Lunessa slept. My inner circle, along with London and
Elonso, met in their room, as I refused to leave Kiana’s side. Something was different about her, I
just couldn’t tell what, and she’d passed about before she could explain.
“Explain,” I demanded in a small voice. “How could Lunessa teleport that many wolves at once?”
“In a way, it was Evalina,” Irene whispered. She was exhausted. “When Evalina asked how my magic
had been taken from me, she started experimenting with the magic. Lunessa and I thumbed
through her spell book after she’d died. She’d found a quick and dirty way of borrowing power for thirty seconds, but that was all Lunessa needed. We prepped her and let her get caught. I adjusted
the spell on the land under our feet. Janelle manipulated the magic in the wolves, which they were
not happy about, and Ava contained a portal around us. It took all of us, and really, the odds were
not good that it would even work.”
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