Slave to the Wolf King のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 271 - チャプター 280

~ JESSE ~It happened faster than thought, and yet, everything slowed down too.One second I was standing there, fighting laughter, staring at my father with my frozen brother at my side.Then, somehow I made the decision to let one of those coiling snakes inside me strike—just one. I didn’t even have to think about it, didn’t even have to give a command. I just… let it go.My father screamed like he’d been shot with a taser, and dropped to the floor, writhing and twitching like someone was still pumping him full of electric current.I jerked back a step, watching him, fascinated, the entire world thrumming. Lights crackling at the edges of my vision. My heart puttering in my chest like a bir

~ JESSE ~It had been hours since I’d stopped running. But I hadn’t stopped walking yet. And I wouldn’t. I didn’t care how long it took to get back to the wolves. Because every step I took, the power got stronger, and I was growing more and more afraid of what I might do if I didn’t get some help.I could barely feel my skin. I should have been sweating. Should have been growing more and more tired. But, instead of being burned by the sun, it seemed like I… absorbed it. And it just gave me more.My existence swelled with power. I was still trembling. Still fighting a battle at every moment not to simply explode with it. But I knew… I knew I had to get back to Cazz. To the wolves. To the Catacombs. Something… someone

~ CASIMIR ~I found myself laying in the grass of the clearing where I’d brought Jesse. I wasn’t sure how I’d gotten here—in my wolf?—but when I sat up I felt… strange.My body felt shaky, but under my skin. Like I’d spent every ounce of energy I had.Yet, for the first time I could remember I was oddly calm. And right alongside the bond in my chest—that brittle, cold thread that still connected me to Jesse—was a tiny ball of warmth.Hope.For the first time in a very, very long time, I had hope.I began to smile until my traitorous mind immediately began to ask all the questions—how I would ever make it

~ JESSE ~It was hours later when, dirty and exhausted from fighting the power, I almost cried with relief when I found the cabin.The light was beginning to fade. I was stumbling with weariness. I’d been following an instinct I wasn’t even sure was real—and almost decided that I was losing my mind.But then, suddenly, the treeline broke open a little to the twilight sky, and there it was, the cabin Rake had told me was out here. And now that I was here, I had my bearings—because the mountain peak could be seen even in the dark—which meant I could get back. I could actually get back to the caves.Almost crying with relief, I hurried towards the building, bu

~ JESSE ~I pressed my foot down on the accelerator and the SUV revved high and rocked, but didn’t budge.Perfect.“Fucking idiot!” my brother barked. But he didn’t take that gun off me. “Go check it,” he snapped at the guys in the back.They muttered, but pushed out of the car.I leaned back against the back of my seat, trying to relax my shoulders because my entire body hummed with tension as the power tried to shove out of me and I grappled frantically to keep it contained.At this point I was terrified I’d kill myself if I let it go.