Chapter Forty-Four

I would have expected for Saint to be fending off the new additions to the fray ensuing among the weather-beaten trees, but I hadn’t planned for the shaggy brown wolf to confront Vance either.

The Omega gave me a hasty once over as the battle raged on around us once it became obvious the newcomers had turned the tables by joining our side, the huge charcoal-gray wolf aiding my mate in chasing off the other Alpha.

I was certain Silas would’ve trailed the cowering beast if I hadn’t been injured, but as it was, he rushed to check on me the second our unanticipated allies had provided the opening, both creatures almost as big as Silas’s own animal, I noted.

One glance to my left confirmed the death knell was ringing for Vance, the long-furred shifter who’d assisted me clamping his lethal teeth around the blonde wolf’s windpipe in a vicious hold, and I watched as the life drained out of the male, feeling nothing but relief at the ending of his life.

Silas remained in his wolf form as Sa