Chapter 44

Raven

My fingers are nestled into Blake's long, chocolate fur as we jump over rocks and fallen logs. Hayden is running to our right, smirking as if he is holding a personal race against the former alpha werewolf.

For a while, it's Blake against Hayden, both racing like idiots while I'm bending forward and squinting to see. Tears are crawling from my eyes because of the wind hitting me in the face. Things are moving so fast that I'm forced to clench my legs not to fall off the wolf.

Eventually, and praise the Lord for that, Hayden stalks closer to us. He ends the dumb competition by talking inside our heads. It leads to Blake slowing down.

'Raven... How do you plan on stopping Lucy from destroying another city, if I may ask?'

I grasp fur between my fingers, glancing down at the running wolf while feeling that tug at my heart.

'I don't know,' I answer earnestly. 'Lucy wouldn't destroy a city unless the Fae somehow forced him. He is a gentle so