Zara had never fired a gun before, she knew nothing about aiming or anything like that but surprisingly enough, her shot was spot on.The man jerked and then his horse slowed as he fell from it to the ground.Zara turned the gun to the two guys remaining, she clicked the trigger but the weapon stalled, she clicked it again, but nothing – it was out of bullets.Not that Joel needed the help because as soon as he transformed, the bullets were nothing more than a nuisance to him.In seconds, he had made quick work of the two shooters and shifted back to his family's human form.By the time the last bullet had been violently pushed out by his body, Zara was dragging two horses by their reins, “We should go,” she said.Joel looked at her, his expression was angry then he nodded wordlessly and climbed up on the horse.In all the chaos, Zara as well as Joel failed to notice that others were watching.One of them was Brother Gi, a sadistic look on his face as he observed the duo massacre the
Joel didn’t recognize the man in the cowboy hat, but there was no doubt that he was connected to the man he had made a deal with.The plan was to send as many hunters as possible to kill Zara but the idiot sent only two and now Zara had killed those two and he had gotten himself involved, and more hunters had shown up.There was no doubt in his mind that if these hunters caught up with him and Zara, there would be no explaining himself out of the situation.Right now, he was just as fucked as Zara was. His survival was tied to Zara – until they got rid of these hunters, he needed her alive.The horses were closing in on them as they made it to the outskirts of Rez Town, Joel looked over his shoulders – five horsemen were coming after them.“We are out of the town, we can take them now!” he yelled to be heard about the pounding hoofs.Zara stopped and listened to what Joel was saying, he had a point, they were no longer in Rez Town and it didn’t look like there would be any more hunter
Joel stood there patiently, listening to everything that Zara had to say, this was exactly what Denice told him but in much more refined details.There was no doubt about it, Zara had lost her mind, the trauma of getting rejected six times and then losing her seventh mate was finally causing her to run mad.“There was someone in the mist?” Joel said out loud, to give the impression that he was listening to her.“No, the mist was human!” Zara corrected.Joel sighed, it was really hard to pretend as if he was down with this.Zara could see that she was losing him, this sounded crazy even to her but the Inn keeper confirmed it, he proved she was not crazy.“Even if what you say is true, what the innkeeper said does not prove anything,” Joel blurted. Why was he even going along with this insanity?“He said the temperature dropped to a chill, it is the exact thing that happened with the rogue leader,” the earnestness was clear in her voice.Joel was shaking his head, “Zara, I am sorry but
Zara braced, the attack could come anytime, if this new assailant was anything like any of the two she just faced then she didn’t have to worry about him using a silver weapon.Just some very painful steel.“What the hell happened here?” Zara heard the voice and recognized it before she smelt his scent.Joel knew exactly what happened there, in fact, it was all orchestrated by him, and to his disappointment, it had failed, once again.This was him cleverly playing the part of ignorance to absorb himself of blame.Relief flooded through Zara as she spun around, “Joel!” she called out happily.He has a look of utter surprise on his face, at least, he was not faking that. Joel was surprised that the failed hunters were able to deal such damage that would force Zara to transform and decimate them.Was it because they were that good or did something else happen tonight?Zara was not sufficiently injured for him to risk attacking her himself, combat-wise, she still surpassed him and Joel wa
Zara did not have the time to be shocked or confused; years of fighting made it easy for her to slip into combat mode at a second’s notice.She stepped back and the sword flew past her face, missing it by inches and burying itself into a wooden pole.She spun in the direction it came from and a cloaked man came running at her.It was weird, Zara could not smell his wolf, could it be…Her thoughts were interrupted when he protracted three sharp blades from the knuckle side of the steel glove he was wearing.Zara had never seen something like that before – she was part mesmerized; part afraid.The man yelled as he ran forward.Zara braced, that she could take him – if he had no wolf, that meant that he was human, right? Humans were no match for wolves.He leaped at her, aiming to take off her face with a powerful swing of his weapon. He didn’t get to that.Zara caught him mid-air, spun with momentum, and sent him flying off to a nearby house. The crash was loud and rang out into the qui
Zara and Brother Gi were not the only people to leave the Moonstone pack that night.Joel too was riding his horse hard and fast heading to the same neighboring village as Zara.Earlier that evening, Denice had come to tell him that Zara was leaving and would be entrusting the safety of the pack into their hands.At first, Joel was livid, he could not believe what he was hearing and screamed at Denice, asking her why she allowed Zara to do something so foolish.They might have won the war against the Flint Posse, and they might have earned the trust of their people back but they were still far from strong, this was the wrong time for Zara to be running off, playing detective.He said that he would ride after her and drag her back if the need arose and initially, that was what he intended to do but as he left the pack, he started having second thoughts.What was he doing being so worried about Zara? Had she somehow bewitched him with her curse?Zara just gave him an opportunity, he kne