Chapter 23: 'We had to. Because it's Rum we're up against.'

ROSE

I hit a bed of sand. “Ooph!”

Fuck, it hurts! I curled into my usual foetal form to ingest the pain as a mesh of vicious grunting and growling rumbled not far from where I am.

Rum! They’re ganging up on him!

Worried sick, I pushed myself up, wincing in pain, and searched frantically for the giant, black wolf.

Then I saw him fighting off the grey wolf—he jumped from the swings to the see-saw and then swiped his claws at the back of the grey fur animal, who then backed away in pain.

The dark brown wolf appeared out of nowhere and jumped onto Rum—.

“Rum, look out!” I screamed in worry.

And Rum shook her off in one violent swing, then threw his hind legs at the attacker and shoved her hard at the steel pole of the swings, and she grunted in pain.

But before Rum recovered, the grey wolf pounced on to him once more.

“Look at what we have here?”

I turned to the voice and gasped in horror.

Niro was moving towards me, his yellow eyes boring through my face as the ugly