Chapter 18.-1
Rhyson
Desperately, I looked at Tessa. She and I were the only wolves still standing. If I went after Nyx, I’d
be leaving her, along with three wounded wolves. I couldn’t do that.
But I also couldn’t let that creature take Nyx.
“I’ll get them conscious. Go. We’ll follow your tracks,” Tessa ordered. I was still torn. “Damn it,
Rhyson, go. If he wanted her dead, he would have killed her immediately. He wants something
else. You know that. Don’t let it happen. Bring her back. I can protect them here.”
Letting my wolf take over, I turned and raced after Nyx. The monster was fucking bigger than it
should have been, but it left a trail that was beyond easy to follow.
How had this creature managed to sneak up on us anyway?
We’d been tracking a wild boar when Juniper was plucked up and tossed into me like she was a
bowling ball and I was the pin. Nash got in a few good licks, and then it started running straight to our camp. Dante managed to get ahead of it, for all the good it did.
Seeing Nyx, in human form, taunt that monster may have shaved decades off my life. She’d stood there with a flaming log and a smart mouth, and he could have killed her with one swoop of his
claws.
He nearly had. I could still smell her blood.
Carrying her to the river, he dropped her on the bank and waded into the river. Pausing, I stayed in
the shadows and tried to assess the situation. Nyx wasn’t stirring. In the water, the monster clumsily started trying to wash himself. Blood ran off him, and he grunted.
When his back was turned, I crept forward to check on Nyx, Relief swept over me when I saw her
flanks moving up and down.
Her shift was too slow to risk right now. I nudged her head with mine, but she didn’t stir. Without
any other choice, I shifted and picked her up. Draping her over my shoulders, I straightened just as the monster turned. Gritting my teeth, I unleashed my power and reached for his wolf. “She’s mine,” I called out. “And I won’t let her go while I’m still alive.”
He rumbled from the river and started to emerge.
I pushed more power, and that’s when I found it. There was a wolf beneath that monster, but it was crazed. I tried to take control, and for a moment, I had it. “Shift,” I commanded it. “Show me who
you are.”
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With a grunt, he fell to his knees, and for a moment, I thought I had it, and then the wolf’s panic hit me like a freight train. My command had unknowingly tipped him over the edge. He wanted to
shift.
He couldn’t.
“Easy.” I struggled to keep my own wolf calm as his wail rattled my head. He charged from the
river, and I braced myself.
Then, six wolves leaped from the shadows and threw themselves at the creature. They brought it
down, and I crouched over Nyx.
Finally, a wolf turned and shifted. An older man emerged slowly and walked over to me. “Easy, pup,
” he said quietly. “We’re not here for you. We’ve been hunting Trevor for days. I’m sorry we got here too late. Your girl okay?”
“She’ll be okay,” I said tensely.
“I left a few wolves with your other woman, to protect them,” the man said with his hands up in
submission. “We have a camp not far from here. We can help you treat your wounded. It’s the least
we can do. Trevor was our fault.”
“What do you mean?”
“My name is Gideon. Trevor is one of my wolves. I lost him days ago. I take that personally.”
Trevor was one of his wolves? Hierarchy among the rogues?
I calculated my odds. Gideon sounded like he was willing to let me pick Nyx up and carry her away, but if he wasn’t, then I’d have my hands full with Nyx and unable to defend myself or her. And Tessa
was all alone with strange wolves.
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