The Guardian's Mate
Emma stepped forward before any of us could react, something feral and controlled flashing across her own expression as her fangs extended.
"Not her," Emma snarled, and the raw authority in her voice made even the coven hunter hesitate for half a second.
"Emma—" Nathan's warning echoed uselessly from somewhere across the chaos, too far away to reach us in time.
The hunter lunged. Emma met it head-on, faster than I'd ever seen her move, the months of training with Nathan and Mira translating into brutal, controlled efficiency as she drove the creature back with a series of strikes that left it reeling. Lily grabbed a fallen Guardian's discarded blade from the grass and joined her, the two of