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I wasn’t hu on instinct, my animal in co up, er, thicker, just on the precipice of changing fully into my massive wolf

I didn’t care if et was male or fe and anyone who hurt my mate

And that hat I kept thinking over and over again, those words echoing inwave as I reached the person who’d hurtin one to care as I wrapped my hand around the thin, narrow neck, felt the pulse fluttering beneath my palm fast and filled with fear, and twisted my wrist until I heard the snap of the bone break

I let the body fall to the ground and was brought back to the ache in my shoulder I looked down and saw a bullet hole An entrance and exit wound Nothing fatal and one that would heal by tomorrow It was also the least of my worries

I dropped down to the ground before ently as I could She was out cold, her tiny body so light in er body over hers, blocking out the rain, letting aze search over her for all her wounds She had afrom it

I stood with her in o I’d ever held, would ever hold The silence suddenly descended behindover the prone body of thewith earlier before I’d come to my female

Even from the distance, I could see Odhran had a bullet wound in his side, the blood seeping through his white T-shirt He also had what looked like taser prongs in his neck, the wires hanging down, the weapon dangling fro there looking down at the body, his bro, his dark hair wet and plastered to his forehead, his chest rising and falling with his al

The huht yet He’d been professionally—Otherworldly—trained It had become clear he hadn’t wanted to kill us He wanted to subdue us He wanted us alive

I walked back to Odhran, his focus still on the huh the rip in his shirt, I saw a large tattoo in the center of his chest

“Odhran?” I proet ure out what the hell was going on I needed to call Adryan and see if he knehat all of this meant

I called Odhran’s na out of whatever haze he was in, and looked atHe ripped the prongs out of his neck and lifted his chin toward the car Although he was back in the present, there was still no doubt he looked as if he’d seen a ghost

Light started flickering intermittently froer drowned out by the storet the hell out of here”

Once at the car, I got into the back and pulled Evie firs stretch out over the seats, unable to let her go I’ll never let her out of ht

I pushed the long, dark fall of her hair away froain She was the most beautiful creature I’d ever laid eyes on She’s the ift

Once ere on the road, I grabbed the cell Odhran handed me and called Adryan I placed the phone to my ear as I stared down at Evie’s face A black-and-blue bruise was starting to for in pain that she’d gotten hurt The gash on her forehead didn’t look too deep, and the blood had since stopped, now drying to her hair and the side of her face

When the line was answered, I didn’t bother waiting or giving a greeting “We have a big fooking issue,” I grated out and pulled Evie closer to ht body curled on my lap

“Do ?” Adryan drawled

“Got attacked by two humans, and the arseholes were hard tae take down But it was clear they knehat the hell ere”