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(Kathryn’s POV)

Tyler roared, he had been looking for Glenda and she was hiding from him. Camerin grabbed a hold of Glenda by the arm. “Take her away!’ Tyler ordered.

“I have been wronged by the human, I have the right to challenge her!” Glenda struggled against Camerin’s hold.

“You have no right unless I give it to you!” Tyler barked at her. He glanced at me and then back at her. “I will grant a challenge in human form only.” Glenda nodded and Camerin released her.

“It doesn’t matter if we fight in human or wolf, I will win the challenge. You will see who is stronger and who really should be your Luna,” Glenda told Tyler. He just rolled his eyes.

“Jake, take charge of the challenge,” Tyler ordered and then he walked over toward me. “You fought Jake really hard, are you up for another fight?” he asked in a whisper. “She can fight, but she’s not a warrior.”

I looked over at Glenda to size her up. She had manicured fingernails, a fit body but no muscles to show she was working out. She was not going to be much of an opponent, there is something that I was missing. “I will be fine, I can handle her.”

“She will figure out quickly that she won’t be able to beat you as a human. She will change to her wolf. When she does, step aside, I will deal with her at that point,” Tyler ordered me. I just nodded with agreement.

I walked back to the fighting circle. Glenda stood on the other side of it. She looked like a mad woman. She truly believed that I stole Tyler from her and she is going to get her revenge. I wondered if she thought she was going to get Tyler as a prize if she could beat me in a fight.

“Remember this is a fight in human form only,” Jake announced. “It is a challenge so there are no other rules. The challenge will not be over until someone taps out or dies.” I looked at Jake when he said dies, he was looking back. He looked very concerned about the fight. What was I missing?

Finally Jake gave the signal to start. The first thing Glenda did was pull out a knife that she had hiding behind her back. I stepped back. I should have realized that a fight of anything also included weapons. She started to circle me with the knife between us. Every once in a while she would jump toward me but I managed to get out of the way. I needed to get that knife away from her.

The next time she jumped in my direction, I jumped back and grabbed a hold of her wrist that held the knife. I twisted her arm behind her and took her to the ground and forced her to release the knife. I pushed her away and grabbed the knife. I threw it out of the ring. Now the knife was out of play. Both of us got off the ground and stared at each other.

“You should have kept the knife,” Glenda said with a smirk. She jumped at me and took a couple swings of her fists. I dodged them both. All it did was irritate her even more. She took another swing of her arm and I bent down, but didn’t get out of the way of her knee that came up into my nose. It was now bleeding. She tried to hit me while I was down but I swiped her leg out from under her and then hit her in the gut with my elbow.

While Glenda was rolling around on the ground, I was dealing with a vision I got from her bare knee hitting my nose. She was going to change to her wolf and I saw her fighting Tyler I mean Goliath. It was a terrible fight. I couldn’t get the vision out of my head.

Glenda was on her knees, she even coughed up blood. “You bitch!” was all she said. Then she changed to her wolf. Jake grabbed my arm and pulled me behind him. He was now standing between myself and a snarling wolf.

Everything went silent when Tyler changed form. Goliath towered over Glenda’s wolf. The circle of warriors widened as the two wolves squared off with each other. Camerin and Micah moved over by me. I knew something was going on, but the conversation seemed to be within their telepathy thing they all share.

“Goliath is trying to talk to her to get her to calm down and switch back. She is ignoring his order,” Camerin was telling me what was going on. “The fool, she just challenged the Alpha. Goliath is going to kill her.”

The two wolves attacked each other. They were rolling on the ground in a ball of fur. Blood and fur went flying. The crowd moved back farther. When they broke up Glenda jumped on Goliath’s back and tried to rip his throat out. He grabbed hold of her front leg with his mouth and pulled her off. He then jumped and knocked her down, with one bite to the neck he managed to rip her neck out. Glenda died instantly. Goliath howled and changed back. Tyler was covered with blood and naked when he walked over to me.

“Are you alright?” he asked me, his voice was raspy. One of the warriors handed him a pair of sweatpants and he put them on..

I wiped some of the blood off of his face. “I’m fine, how are you?” he just kissed me on the lips without saying a word. He grabbed me by the hand and tried to lead me away from everyone. Camerin signaled that I should go with him. We walked back to the packhouse without a word.