The scent of blood filled the air as I saw Rem strike down the male wolf that had dared to sneak up behind us and had leapt on my back, biting at my neck to choke me to death. The poor male’s head rolled onto the ground as the blade of Rem’s sword had cut clean through. My eyes widened at the sight. For Rem, this was business as usual, anything to protect his loved ones. For me, however, I had never taken a life before. “Oi,” Rem called out to me, “stop daydreaming and stay beside me, we’re going to have to back up a bit. More wolves are coming.” I looked up at him. He returned my gaze with a sorrowful expression, but those dark-forest green held no regret within them. I knew he would do anything for me, but to see the extent of his will to protect me was a shock. The two who had been circling us had backed off when their third friend had been slain, but now they were angry and mourning the loss of a pack member. I wanted to console the

My fears that the enemy pack was trying to tire us out was becoming more and more real to me. Every time we pushed them back, they would send another, slightly larger group to replace them. The sky-shifters had joined us now, and it was thanks to their surprise attack that the last batch of werewolves retreated to their camp. We might not get that lucky again, as they would have warned the others about our new allies. “We need to bring the fight to them if we can,” I said, looking up at Rem as my ears pinned back against my head. “Even with us taking shifts and our sky-shifter friends joining in, we won’t hold up for too much longer.” “You don’t even know if the pack leaders are even at that camp,” Rem replied, his brows furrowing down in thought and frustration. He was not as tired as his Hunters, but it was unsure how much longer he could keep this up. The pavements were covered in blood and the odd dead wolf. It wasn’t something I had wanted

The time spent fighting the new wave seemed to last a lifetime, but eventually, we drove them off. The waves were getting quicker now as another wave was ready to leave to attack us. If they were picking up speed, then perhaps they thought we were getting weaker? Or perhaps they were hoping to tire us out quickly so that we’d not be able to rest as easily between fights? Whatever their plan was, I was ready for them. As was Rem. I doubted this back knew Rem and I were mates, so they wouldn’t have factored in the whole mind-link situation we had going on. Though I was unsure if they were aware that our pack had merged with the others and become ours. Even if they were aware, I made sure never to show my full hand of how many of my pack members could fight, or how strong or weak they were. Finally, the word from the others reached my mind that it was safe to progress with the next phase of our plan. I was relieved that it had come before this new

I could no longer smell anything other than the blood that had scattered over the surrounding fields. I was breathless from the constant fighting, but far fewer enemy werewolves were now trying to fight back. We had lost a few of our own but compared to them, we had made it out rather well. I felt sorry for those here. None of them had really started this entire war, but all of them had paid some kind of price. Meanwhile, their so-called leaders were still nowhere to be found.With a slight limp, I made my way across the field to where I could find Rem. He had seemed to fair much better than most of us in this fight, but I wasn’t really all that surprised by it. He was a powerful fighter and smart enough to manoeuvre a battlefield. My memories might have returned to me, but I was never a fighter, not even in my previous lives.He smiled down at me and offered my head a few loving scratches behind the ear, which set my tail into a frenzy of

It feels like it has been forever since this whole thing started, even though it hadn’t been that long since Rem and I had met and become mates. I had hoped life would have been simple, enjoying life blissfully, but life had other plans for me and Rem and life had sent this Alpha to shake up our two worlds. Now it had all boiled down to this.Looking around the new battlefield, it seemed with the few Ancient Ones having followed and helped with the fight to protect those who could not defend themselves; we had brought down all the Alpha’s pack members. The Alpha was the only one left still able to fight. I stood in front of the others, my tail held up in a challenging display towards him. I was sure that Ken would want to kill him, but I knew that if we allowed him to do that, nothing much would change. The survivors of the Alpha’s pack and allies would merely seek revenge and call our own pack and allies traitors.No. If I want