The Marked
"Look what we have here. Two little pups, all alone in the woods."
"Run!" a woman's voice screamed from somewhere behind us. I recognized it—Ava's mother, crashing through the trees, her face twisted in terror and rage. "Run, now!"
But we were surrounded. Ava grabbed my hand, and we jumped down from the boulder, trying to find a gap in the circle of men. One of them lunged for us, and I saw something impossible—his face was changing, elongating, his teeth growing into fangs.
Ava's mother reached us, putting herself between us and the attackers. "You can't have them!" she snarled, and her voice was different, deeper, inhuman. "They're under pack protection!"
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