With Lucy’s help, maybe, but she was gone now. I was alone here, with barely more strength than a child. My attempts to move him were useless.Just as I regretted my own uselessness, the gray sky seemed to open up, and a rain started, pouring down onto us both. I moved around Alaric, shifting my kne
Cara’s POVIn a flash, my body contorted, my limbs twisting as fur erupted from all over my skin. I fell forward, down onto four legs. My vision turned red.All I could see was these attackers circling around my mate, trying to take him away from me.Away from us, my wolf and I now one.No, we would
“Alaric,” I said, hurrying to cover the wound. With the obstruction gone, he should be healing. Instead, he continues to bleed. As he shifts back to human, the wound looks even worse, jagged and oozing with blood and some kind of yellowish gelatin-like substance.It looked incredibly painful. Alaric
Cara’s POVI had no idea what the security official was talking about. What danger could I be in? Weren’t the woods being guarded?And where did he himself come from?“Please, miss,” the man said with more urgency, while gesturing into a group of trees off the main road. My suspicion lurched. Why wo
Alaric’s POVMelinda looked at Noel with some surprise in her typically guarded expression. “So sure of yourself, are you?”“I can hear your heartbeat,” Noel said. “It spikes when you lie.”“Maybe the truth just excites me,” she countered.He shook his head. “You lied again.”She stared at him for a
Cara’s POVBack under the pavilion for another break before the next contest, I sat at one of the picnic tables with my arms stretched out and ice packs over my aching muscles.“There’s no reason for you to participate in the final event,” Charlotte said to me, echoing previous warnings made by both
Cara’s POVThe day was filled with contests with very little time to break in between. As such, I wasn’t able to talk with Alaric, my brothers, or Noel. Instead, though, I filled in the Claw Sisters and Georgie on what occurred.“A secret stabbing is so cowardly,” Charlotte said. “If she had any hon
Cara’s POVAt once, I moved my arm up to shield myself, desperate to protect my vital organs.Yet, when the knife stabbed into me, I surprised to find that the blade pushed back, harmlessly, into the handle. I’d seen such a thing happen in the past, during stage shows. Her knife was nothing more tha
Alaric’s POVWith Colin watching the kids, Ryan, Aidan, and I went to spectate the cooking event. The event itself was being held in a large gymnasium, with special mats set up to protect the typical gym floor. Atop the mats, each contender was given their own section, with their own counters, appli