Chapter 33

                        *** Grayson's POV ***

Thud, thud, thud. 

Thud, thud, thud. 

All I could hear was the constant rhythm of my heartbeat, picking up its pace as it thundered through my chest and blocking out all other sounds. 

Thud, thud, thud. 

Fear. Fear was all that I was sure of at this moment. 

Cold, panicked, frozen... I was paralysed and I couldn't remember a time I had felt this way before. 

The fear of losing the one I loved more than anything, the one I was born to be with... it was consuming my very being, and now I feared for my mate's very existence. 

Laila had pushed me. 

I had seen Slade and his bitch mate slink out from behind the trees... I wanted to charge them, to take what was owed to me, his life. But they were out to play dirty, and the gun in