Once Upon a Full Moon
I heard the witch’s neck snap, and to everyone’s horror, Kaiya’s hand curled into the deadly claw of her wolf just before she punched through the witch’s chest and ripped out her heart.
Triumphant, my mate got to her feet and dropped the still beating heart to the floor, grinding it into the dirt under her boot. The heart popped open like a ripe boil, oozing black blood into the earth.
The witch let out a scream that threatened to crack my back teeth and let go of her last breath.
“Tsk,” I clucked my tongue. “Damn. Why did you do that?”
“You have to kill them properly,” Kaiya said and wiped her bloody hand on the witch’s skirt, “or they just come back to life.”