Saved again.

Damon POV.

The moment I stepped outside, the first thing I heard was the loud shriek from Evie.

The shriek tore at my heart and made me experience another round of excruciating pain., that I had to pause to get myself. The pause only lasted for a second though, as I saw a wolf trying to jump over her. Two more wolves were flagging around her. I didn't wait to see what would happen next.

My instincts clicked in and I rushed to her side. I got there just as the wolf extended out its hand to claw her. I flung her around and the claws hit me instead. I groaned at the pain I felt from my back getting torn. I wondered just how bad it would have been if Evie was the one that got injured instead.

"Damon!" I heard her cry with a loud shriek.

My anger rose and I snarled. I let go of her and took hold of the wolf that was trying to race away from me. It tried to get away from me desperately, moving its arms about, trying to hit me at every free location it could get.

I chuckled as I held it by the throat, moving my wolf strength into the hand I held its throat with. I knew that I was slowly snapping life out of it and somehow, that alone gave me too much joy, barely managing to seeth my rage.

Rage, I couldn't exactly pinpoint why I was feeling it.

When I felt the wolf sag in my hand, I knew it was close to death. I wasn't willing to give it that easy death it wanted though. It's been a while since I've actually had a fight and I wouldn't mind giving in to the desire and thirst for blood that I was feeling.

I watched as the two other wolves tried to stay hidden in the dark, probably trying to determine if they should help their friend or not.

I released the wolf I held. The moment I let go of it, it made its way into the forest trying to escape from me. I gave out a harsh laugh and transformed immediately. The wolf had barely gone for five feet when I grabbed it again. I gave it the same mark it gave me at the same spot.

It let out a pained howl while I let out a happy one. I continued to claw it every way and chance I could get. The wolf tried to fight back but I could tell it knew that it was fighting a lost cause because I was obviously stronger than it was. When I got tired of toying with the wolf, I raised my hand and slashed its throat open. It gnarled and struggled until life was gone out of him. The other two wolves raced away when they saw their partner dead.

"Cowards!" Leo hissed to me, obviously still spoiling for a fight.

Even though I agreed with him, I didn't have the desire to go after them. I changed back to my human form and turned to look at the dead wolf that was also in its human form again. It was someone I didn't recognize, so I wondered why he was in my part of the pack's territory in the first place.

"Damon, your back!" Evie said. She rushed to me and began to examine my injured back. I wasn't worried about the back though since my wolf ability encouraged accelerated healing. I knew the place would weave back together in three days maximum.

What I was worried about was why there was a strange werewolf, no not a werewolf but werewolves, on my pack's territory.

Did they just chase Evie into my pack? Or was there more to it?

Evie, right. What the hell was she doing in the woods at that time of the night?

I turned straight to her. "Can you tell me why you were being chased by werewolves?!" I snarled at her and she flinched.

"I was... just strolling in the... woods." She stammered out.

"And why the fucking hell would you be in the woods at this time of the night? In the middle of the night?!" I yelled at her.

She opened her mouth to say something but I raised my hands to stop her. There was no way I would just stand there and listen to whatever nonsense she was going to spill out of her mouth. Not when there was every possibility that she just made me endanger my pack for her sake.

The other two werewolves that escaped might go on to tell their Alpha about the death of their third partner and they could come knocking on our door with a cry of war.

Damn, Evie! And damn the mating bond!

"But I-"

"Miss Kardashian would give you your punishment, so go and meet her. And make sure you tell her I said the punishments should be very severe," I hissed at her.

"But-"

"Get lost from my sight before I lose my temper right now!" I screamed at her. My right hand was already in the air and I felt that I would have landed it on her cheeks if she didn't race away from me.

"Stop right there!" I yelled at her again, feeling a new kind of anger, seeing her so afraid of me. She stopped as if my voice was a remote control to her. I saw her shivering but that only infruiturated me some more. "See me in my office tomorrow," I commanded her. She nodded and raced off again.

I watched until she disappeared into the house meant for the slaves, then I walked away from there. I returned to the study and met Miss Kardashian still in my place. I thought I saw her hands roaming around a file there but I wasn't so sure.

"Back?" She asked seductively, jiggling her two breasts in front of me. "Want to finish this?"

Wordlessly, I walked to where she was and kissed her angrily, ready to release my anger on her.