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I was about to launch ht, a flash of color, a body, a for faster than any hu behind one of theat rin spread across his face and his red, glowing eyes flashing with exciteht beforehis bottom lip

And the human didn’t even knoas about to die

Adryan gripped the hair of the huled for only a millisecond before Adryan opened his rowled so deep I heard it across the distance Adryan tore his y flesh so the hu—wound

Blood pulsed out of the man’s throat in a brilliant display of red, an arc of his life literally h the air

Adryan spit out the chunk of flesh with a grin

I heard a female cry and snapped un raised to her head, the barrel pressed to her te down her cheeks I held very still even though I was howling in rage and fear for my female

I crouched low, analyzing how to take the fucker down in the safest, fastest way possible, when she raainst his nose He howled, blood rushing out of his face instantly His arms loosened around her, and she was sround God, nificent

I was on hiot flat on the ground and rolled away I slammed my pan on his chest so hard I heard his ribs break under the force His head cracked back on the asphalt, his ar across the road I didn’t wait, couldn’t even think rationally or decide what I was going to do

My wolf took over as I cla that part of his body fly through the air to land in the distance It was a gory, brutal display of th, my prowess

It ho I was as a Lycan

It was how I protected my mate

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He was huge Cian’s wolf body was er than a Shire horse, as if he were plucked from a fantasy novel, a fairy tale And all I could do was stare at the man as my mate, a oliath wolf’s body, blood dripping off his fur, his eyes glowing blue as he stared at me

And although I knew logically I should be afraid, that I’d seen him tear apart human bodies—threats to me, to us, and everyone else—all I could think about was hoasn’t afraid at all I was in awe, thisanyone who thought to get nearas I wanted to be, he was there by th

My body ached, and I knew I had cuts littering nored the pain, standing for only a second before I started to hobble over to my mate I’d sprained , froot to Cian, the ized

The led and war his scent that—although tinged with the coppery scent of the blood from the people he killed—I could pick up, the spicy dark aroma that made Cian… Cian

I tipped my head back so I could stare into his eyes, and he just stood there, letting me look my fill, to take in every impossible yet incredible inch of him His fur was dark, black like onyx, so thick and soft looking that h it

He lowered his head slightly as if he reade head, over one of his pointed, thickly tufted ears, the air whooshing out of ers

I should’ve focused onout far too close to the van still on fire yet not having exploded yet But as I let lance around, I could see that the only ones left standing were the vampires and Odhran as he took down the last of the human men from the Assembly