Transformers: Prime Windblade Novels & Stories

Wolves scatter, howling as heat scorches fur and skin. “MOVE!” Ethan roars, slamming into me as the ground explodes where I’d been standing. We tumble hard, rolling through ash and shattered earth. My ears ring, vision swimming as I claw my way upright. Gravehowl meets the beam head-on. He doesn’t dodge. He devours it. The Prime opens his jaws impossibly wide, swallowing the light in a torrent of sparks and fury. Power crackles across his frame, ancient sigils blazing briefly along his ribs.

Ruby sends up a howl, alerting our patrols on the border and our wolves in no man’s land that we’re heading towards them. Beside me and behind me, I can hear the sounds of wolves running at a gallop and I know that Raul, Bree and Dax have all shifted as well. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Bree and Raul switch places, so Bree is now beside me, with Dax on the other side and Raul is now behind me. Bree and Dax are flanking me, protecting their Alpha and Raul knew to make that swap with Bree without even being asked.

After I was reborn, I burned every photo I had with Natalie Landers and tore up the three years' worth of love letters Kristen Rhodes had written me. In my last life, I'd been nothing but a joke caught between those two women. Natalie swore she loved me, but the moment I gave up my study-abroad spot for her, she left the country with Freddy Palmer. Before she left, she wrote me a letter, saying, "He needs me more than you do." I spent three months falling apart. Kristen brought me dinner every night and told me, "I've waited eight years for you." Once we were together, she came home on time every evening and never so much as looked at another man. I thought I'd finally bet on the right