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“What do you feel?”

“Like we’re being followed”

“I’ve been feeling that since we left Vee’s Since we left the school”

“Yeah Me too” I looked around warily, peering closely at shadows “I thought I was just paranoid and that it would pass It hasn’t passed It’s actually getting—”

I was going to say stronger, but before the word could passroar from behind knocked me flat I rolled over, turned around, and rose into a crouch as a beast charged out fro All I could see was spiky black fur and vicious, sharp teeth before Xero knocked me out of the way

“What is that thing?” I shouted

Nobody answered They had all shifted and were trying to fight it off It had eyes like Kai’s when he was in his vaer and ht to enter Its teeth were like the vaer and ated humanoid frame, and on its belly where the fur was thinner, black arteries and veins were visible through its deathly pale skin It swiped at Kai, slicing his chest from shoulder to rib with vicious blood-red claws

Blood rushed in htheaded as fear filledto keep h all I wanted to do was scream

“Stop” My clear voice rang off of theback at me TheCan you think? Do you even have a brain?”

My poere useless against a beast with no sex drive and no higher-level thought process I had no idea what its mate would look like if it had one, and I was afraid to shift into an exact copy of the ht think it had coed and aggressive So far no one but Kai had been hurt, but the others weren’t havingFor as thin as its skin looked, it seemed to be impenetrable

“Kingston, fire!”

Xero gave the order while yanking Kai and Jayce back several feet

My dragon shifter rass Shrieking in pain, it fell to the ground, flailing and rolling As soon as the fire was out, it scraed as fuck and royally pissed off Patches of hair weregray, but it didn’t seem hurt

Kai launched an attack at a crispy spot on the beast’s chest as that a stick?

“Stake it!” Xero bellowed