ZaleTyler jerked and his attention was diverted from me as he stared off in the direction Amanda had taken. "What is it?" He shook his head, frowning. "Something, isn't right. I saw something."I waited for him to elaborate but he didn't.A fireball flared to life beside me, a tiny one, but enough to get his attention. I set it straight for my teacher's hair.Tyler didn't even notice when it caught aflame.What was going on?"Tyler!"The hound jerked to attention and noticed the fire raging in his head and put it out with a pat on the head. The fire curled around his fingers then vanished. "That was immature of you, Prime."So was sniffing after my woman but I hadn't pointed that out yet. I knew what her ultimate decision was. My little Luna was a greedy woman and after the life she had, I didn't blame her. If she wanted to fuck all the hounds, I'd allow it. Everyone knew who was in charge and that was all that mattered. "Are you going to tell me what's going on that's so importan

JesseOur pretty little Luna shivered beneath my every caress. The more I touched her, the more the warmth of Raul reflected in her touch. "It's your choice."She swallowed and looked away from me.The knife that twisted in my guts would normally be enough to take my breath away, but I wanted to hide it from her. After everything that she had gone through with Aren, I wanted to be able to give her at least one choice. Funny, normally I'd be the one that pressed things but I couldn't find it in myself to do it. Every second that dragged on made the wounds inside me widen. Hell hounds rarely took mates for just this reason. We were a species created for service. This was our punishment for daring to step up from our position. We were meant to always serve, never to care.Hell hounds were shit at actually listening to what we were supposed to do. Even if this ripped me apart in time, I wouldn't force her to accept me."Yes," she whispered so soft the wind almost stole the words from he

AmandaJavier looked like he'd swallowed a stinkbug. His arms were crossed over his chest and though he tried to smile at me, there was something in the action that was missing."Luna," he grumbled as I walked by.This was quite the change from earlier. It had only been long enough for Zale to sit him down to have a talk and this was the result? "What's wrong?" I asked. We didn't have much time now. We needed to leave soon.Javier groaned and sighed at the same time while thumping his chest. "I've made a decision." He grimaced even as he said the words. "I'm staying behind."Bo perked up from the other side of me. "You are?"Javier glowered at him. The man's eyes were almost completely closed. "I am," he agreed with a shrug. "I've got no choice. I'm going to help protect the people here along with Tyler."My latest hound nodded slightly. I hadn't prepared for two of my mates to stay behind, but if I thought about what had happened the last time I had been outside of the magical walls

ZaleI twisted in mid-air to get my feet under me again and growling, I turned back to the fight. The black flames leaping into the air gave me pause. There weren't the flames of the hounds anymore, they were as corrupted as my mate was.Why had those creatures targeted Bo in the first place? I was going to have to lock him in a room stuffed with pillows at this point. Ares snapped at me, upset with my mind wandering. I jerked and raced back to the circle of fire that stretched taller than any tree we had. The flames were dark, almost solid in color and blocked out whatever was happening to Amanda in there.I couldn't jump them. I doubted I could bust my way in there too, but that's what I was about to try.The remaining wizards weren't cackling anymore. They were grouped in a pile, the ones that hadn't died yet, and wailed up at the sky. I had hoped that taking them down would have saved Bo from whatever disaster he'd stumbled into this time.Reaching out through the bond was a dea

AmandaRigar screamed.It wasn't a laugh of victory that had gotten out of hand. It was a blood-curdling scream of pain and agony.Something had hurt him.I dared to look up at him. My little spear still radiated in him, but it was growing bigger, and connecting with a similar spear of ice that went through his stomach. No, that wasn't ice. It was a sword?Staring at the bloodied tip I tilted to the side to investigate and came face to face with a bloody, bruised, and crying Clara."Clara," I whispered her name not believing that she was there."They're all dead," she whispered, jerking on the sword that was buried inside of him. "Everyone back in the pack, he killed them all in front of me."All the connections that I'd still had were snapped in an instant. I focused on the tip of that spear and put every last bit of energy I had into it. The stupid hound continued to hang onto me, her intentions were unclear I was surprised she hadn't went for my throat, but then again she didn't se