The Trap

LORELAI

The wolves were on cleanup duty, the beast was back in the barn, and the twins were settled after feeding and hours of cuddles. But eventually, my alphas needed me.

I went with them, climbing into bed with them. The doors were open, and the cold wind made the netting billow in, but I made no attempt to close them. I knew the craving that rested in Kai’s blood, the desire in Derik’s, and even the lingering heat in Brax’s from being bitten earlier.

I felt it too. As much as I needed sleep, needed to reset after the vampires’ attack, after realizing we had made the wrong moves and given Silas the play he wanted, I needed my alphas more.

I peeled the clothes from my body and went to the bathroom to soak my skin in a vanilla-scented mix my mother had made. I cleansed it of the blood and sex that had made up my day.

Then I climbed into bed with them.

Kai moved in behind me. My arms went around Derik as Brax separated my legs and lay down between them. I didn’t know when it had become such a routine to need the weight and heat of their bodies to relax mine, but I loved every suffocating second of it.

I didn’t know how to sleep alone anymore. They were too ingrained in everything I did, and I knew they felt the same.

I held Derik as he kissed me. His lips pressed against my cheek, my eyelids, my nose, before finding my lips again. Nikolai kissed over my shoulder, my neck, his fingers trailing down my side as Brax teased the inside of my thighs.

It was an addictive kind of pleasure to have three sets of lips all moving over my raised skin, finding the alive nerve endings and exploiting each one.

To have three powerful alphas manipulating my body in the best ways to bring me to the heights of ecstasy I had only ever read about.

They would do anything for me, and I for them. That promise was there in every kiss, every touch, every whisper of their bodies and words across my skin.

It made everything feel that much more intense. It was like I was drowning in a lake with no sensation except the ones they offered me through the lifelines they were. I grasped every single one of them with such a strong grip, it made me ache.

Derik, Braxton, and Nikolai—names I couldn’t forget, names that carried the weight of my entire world, the names of my mates. And I was theirs.

My canines dropped from my aching gums, and I sucked in a breath as their kisses turned feral. Derik’s mouth covered mine in harsh tugs of my lips, his tongue sliding against mine, his taste making me moan.

I held him tighter, my fingers digging into his muscular frame as Kai pressed his hard cock against my ass. He groaned as I moved my hips back against him, teasing his length. Brax’s breath brushed my pussy as I did, and I sucked in a breath, kissing Derik harder.

“You’re mine, Derik. I want everyone to know it,” I whispered against him, and he smiled down at me, running his thumb down my cheek.

“Then show them, beautiful,” he said, turning his head to the side. I didn’t need any more prompting. I blinked, and my teeth were sinking into his neck. It was instantly euphoric, the high right there, sending me spiraling with his taste, his soul right there in my mouth.

It filtered down through my body, and I moaned as his grip on me tightened. He lifted me up, sinking me down on his cock, and I was so damn full in that moment.

He stretched me, his cock swelling inside me, on the edge of painful, but I welcomed it, riding him as my toxin leaked into him. His life source became a part of me, and I got drunk on it.

When I ripped my canines from his skin, I was moving fast on his cock, the high still swirling before I licked over the bite and sent us both spiraling into an intense orgasm.

It had me crying out against him, burying my head in his neck. He gripped my hips tightly and pumped up into me with furious strokes. My pussy clutched him as his release stretched on, his groaning and aggression turning me on even more as it vibrated through me.

And when the pleasure started to ebb, I missed it, but the high was still there, my toxin calling out to me from his body. He emptied the last of his come into me, and I sighed, collapsing on him, my eyes fluttering closed.

“Can you bite me back?” I whispered against him, and he chuckled, making him move inside me as he patted my hair down, his fingers tracing down my spine.

“If you want to put the pack in heat, I can.”

“I don’t think I care,” I murmured sleepily, and he kissed the side of my head.

“Then—”

“Not going to happen. I need our Little Luna here and those teeth of hers ripping through my skin before I kill something I shouldn’t,” Kai grinned, but his eyes said he definitely believed that was a possibility. I laughed and sat up, crawling from Derik and curling up against Kai.

He soothed me, his surprisingly tender strokes down my body making me think he was going to go easy on me, but the thought alone had him snickering.

“Saving the best for last?” he teased, and I scowled at him.

“Or letting you suffer for longer?”

“I like the suffering. It means it’s going to be more intense.” He grinned, and I raised a brow before looking at the other two.

“He’s not joking, is he?” I shuddered, and Derik smirked, shaking his head as Brax laughed, waiting for me. But I think even he knew I’d be close to passing out by the time Kai was finished with me.

“I’ve got your aftercare, Spitfire. You’ll be okay,” Brax promised, and I nodded before turning to Kai.

“Don’t break me,” I warned, and he laughed.

“I should be saying that to you, Little Luna. You’re the one with the power here,” he said before crushing my lips with his and pinning me to the bed with his huge frame.

Then he was sending me into oblivion until I couldn’t remember what the world was before he put his cock in me.

I hadn’t been asleep long when a cold rush of air brushed through the room. I gasped awake in Brax’s arms as he kissed my body, licking, caressing, massaging, still giving my body the aftercare it needed after my alphas.

They were marked, they were mine, and I could still taste them on my tongue. Feel my toxin in their veins. I grinned up at Brax, who smiled back.

But that smile from both our faces fell when there was a howl, then a crash from out the window. I sucked in a breath, ripping the linen with me as I went to the patio, leaning over the railing.

The wolves were rushing toward the barn where an angry beast tore it to shreds. They were trying to shackle him again.

~“Stop!”~ I yelled down the link.

~“He’s volatile, beautiful. He was attacking,”~ Derik explained, already down there. But there had to be something more.

~“He doesn’t attack us for no reason. Did you find out what he wants?”~ I demanded, looking through Derik’s eyes. He was in human form as his wolves tried to pin down the beast, but it was lashing out, in a frenzy—one that I recognized.

Adrenna.

~“And how are we meant to do that, Little Luna? He’s a beast; he doesn’t have words,”~ Kai interrupted, in wolf form with the others, trying to pin the beast.

~“He doesn’t need them. There’s only one reason he attacks.”~

~“Adrenna,”~ Derik said in realization, stopping the pack he had been trying to pin the beast down. It roared and shoved the wolves back with a snarl so feral, I felt it from where I was, vibrating the floor.

~“Let it go. See what it does,”~ I ordered, and Derik hesitated. “You sure, Spitfire?” Brax asked from next to me. I nodded.

~“The beast wants Adrenna. Either it’s been too long since he hunted her and he’s lashing out over it, or—”~

~“He can sense her,”~ Brax said, and I nodded, already moving inside to yank on some clothes. Brax ran from the room, and I was right behind him. But the twins were safe, in their beds. I breathed out a sigh of relief, then sat down next to their beds.

~“Let it go, Derik.”~

~“I’m not a fan of this plan, Luna. Mind if I ask why we’re letting it go?”~ Tatum interrupted, still eyeing the beast who was snarling, its hackles risen.

~“Because Adrenna might be close, and he is the only way we would know that. If you don’t let him go and she gets in here, hurts one of the twins like last time, do you think you will survive that mistake?”~ I snapped.

My thoughts were harsh with my tone, but I was not risking Zale and Enzi’s safety on the chance that the beast might tear through the city when it had done nothing to break my trust. The wolves refusing my command to let it go—that would break my trust. The entire pack knew that in my words and inched backward.

***

“Follow it, wherever it goes, so do we,” I said. They moved back out of the beast’s way. It huffed, wary as it passed the wolves, then roared and took off out of the city. The wolves opened the gate for him, and it left, leaving its mangled prints in the snow.

“Follow it!” I ordered before taking one last look at Zale and Enzi. I leaned down and pressed my lips against their heads.

“You’re going?” Brax asked, and I nodded.

“I have to. I have to know she isn’t going to come for them again. I will do whatever I have to for them to be safe, Brax,” I said. He nodded.

“I know, but I’m coming with you. I need to keep you safe.”

~“Hurry up, Little Luna. The pack is tracking it, but they’re not as fast as it or me. If you're coming, you better be on my back in the next minute, or you’re getting shackled here,” ~Kai said in my head. I smirked.

“I’ll be with Kai. Can you keep Zale and Enzi safe? If Adrenna is out there, she might be distracting us as a way of getting to them. I need to know they are protected. I trust you and your shadows to do that.”

Brax let out a deep breath before nodding. “I’ll keep them safe, but I think they’re more powerful than both of us.” He smirked. I laughed softly before giving him a kiss and leaning in to lick over his mark. He sighed and held me tighter.

“Come back safe, Spitfire. I’ll be watching,” he said. I nodded then left the room, heading down to Kai. Derik was waiting with him. He helped me onto Kai’s back, then kept my face by his, kissing me deeply before letting me go.

“I’ll keep everyone here safe and send backup if I need to. And you’ll need these,” he said. Then he handed me a chain with two gold shackles on the end. Each shackle had a symbol on it: a crescent moon with a four-point star on it, crossing over the moon.

“These will keep her from using her magic?” I asked. Derik nodded.

“Yeah, don’t let her get them on you, or the same thing will happen.” He swallowed, looking at them like they were not something he wanted anywhere near me, let alone in my hand. I tucked them into the satchel over my shoulder that held my blade in it—one of them, anyway.

“I’ll be careful.”

“Stay with Kai.”

“I will.”

And then Kai was running, taking us from the safety of the city.

The path that used to be a blur when we ran wasn’t anymore. My wolf eyes adjusted, seeing every part of the world as it flashed past us: the blades of grass, the leaves on the trees, the stone of the path. It was mostly buried beneath snow, but even that, I could see.

Kai pushed on faster, catching up to his pack and running at the front. Tatum was at his flank with others that formed around us as we ran. It was impressive the way they moved, in sync, reading off each other.

I kept my head on the link, reading and seeing what they were seeing. They saw the footprints from the beast, scented him in the air, and even I could hear his breathing. He was hunting. So were we.

The beast roared, and there was a thud. I peered through the darkness, through the trees, grinning when I saw him shove Adrenna into a tree. He roared at her. She stabbed at him with a small blade, but he threw her into another tree.

She cried out before scrambling to her feet, her black sand magic swirling around her, threatening the beast.

I threw my magic out, catching her off guard as it hurtled toward her. She only just managed to escape it, rolling across the ground.

I sent my shadows too, as the wolves formed a circle around her in the small clearing in the trees.

The beast charged at Adrenna, and she tried to run, but the wolves had her cornered. I climbed from Kai’s back and went forward, my magic and shadows trying to pin her too. She was a crafty bitch, though, and lither than she looked.

My magic was hesitant too, sensing something, and I didn’t understand it, but I didn’t dare betray it. I knew it could turn on me, so I kept my magic protecting me and the wolves rather than attacking, letting my shadows do the grunt work.

They were all too happy to, whipping at Adrenna’s feet and hands, trying to latch on and yank her to me.

The beast swiped at her, catching her before her magic could save her. She flew, landing in the snow, her body rolling and crunching through it before she stood up, her chest heaving.

“Adrenna, stop!” I called, and she glared at me. I walked forward, brushing my hand up the back of the beast so he knew it was me. His rage sizzled, seething, but he stilled.

“Winter born,” she hissed.

“I have an offer, but I need you to listen,” I explained, and she sneered.

“You have nothing I want.”

“Yes, I do. I have freedom, and I know you want that.”

“You have no idea what I want,” she snapped, her magic getting angrier. I thought mine would too, but it was still prickling, sensing something on the edges of my own senses, but I couldn’t understand what it was trying to tell me.

“I can guess. You want what anyone wants. Love. A life where you don’t have to run. I’m guessing that’s what you’re doing. Silas is angry with you for not delivering him Zale, and we are too because of taking him in the first place.”

“What’s your point, winter born?”

“It’s Luna, actually. And my point, Adrenna, is that I sympathize with you. And I am not Silas. I don’t want to kill you for failing me. I want to help you.”

“Lies,” she hissed.

I shook my head. “No. It’s not. You know how this ends. You will run until there is no energy left, no fight left to run, and then either the vamps will catch you, or we will. Or you can come with me now and get the future you wanted.”

“That future is gone,” she growled, her eyes going to the beast who let out a snarling huff that stirred the snow around me. I placed a hand on what I thought was his shoulder and patted it, keeping him as calm as I could.

He had listened; he hadn’t killed her like he was programmed to do, which meant the human he was, was still in there, but I was guessing that was a part of the punishment.

“I can give it back.”

“How?”

“It’s not the how that you need to ask. It’s the what. What do you have to do, to give up, to get that future because there is a cost, Adrenna, and if you agree to pay it, I’ll keep my word to you,” I said, and that had her frowning, wary but listening.

“What cost?”

“You give up being a witch. Give up your magic, I’ll make you human. But I’ll make the beast human too. You’ll both be as you were, minus the magic, and you’ll be allowed the future that was taken from you,” I offered, and her eyes narrowed.

***

“The witches would never agree to that. I asked them to take my magic at the start; they refused.”

“They had the power then. They don’t anymore. They are not the balance this realm rests on, and I am going to use that fact to get you what you want. But you do have to agree to give up your magic and come back to the city in shackles while we negotiate,” I said, pulling them out from the satchel.

She snarled and stepped back, which made the beast growl and step forward. I got between them, with Kai in my shadow, ready to intervene.

“That’s the price, Adrenna. Give up your magic. I’ll make you and the beast human.”

“And you’ll get all my magic,” she scoffed. I nodded.

“You think I would offer this without anything in my favor after what you did? You’re too smart for that, Adrenna.”

“How do I know you will keep your word?”

“How do I know you’ll keep yours?” I countered, and she let out a huff before looking at the beast.

“You can communicate with him?”

“Kind of. A mutual understanding.”

“Does he want this?”

“Yes,” I said without hesitation. “It’s the only reason he refrained from ripping you to shreds the second he found you. Because I promised him the same thing.”

She raised her brows before her face fell and pain tortured her features. Then she stepped forward with a slow move and her arms out.

“You better not be lying, winter born,” she warned. I shook my head.

“I’m not. We’ll make the deal in a blood oath in the city with the other alphas and the rest of the pack to witness. We’ll both be bound to our word,” I explained.

She nodded once and looked at the beast as I stepped forward and locked her wrists in the magic binds.

Her black sand instantly drew back into her, and she winced as it was locked inside her body. I let out a sigh of relief, then turned to the beast who was growling low, its eyes locked on Adrenna.

Its body was shaking, and I petted him again. He was resisting but only just, and we had to get this deal done before he frenzied again. Kai nodded to Tatum to take over the shackles.

He came forward, shifting smoothly, and I averted my eyes from his naked body as he led Adrenna back down the path. The pack followed, staying shifted as wolves as they formed tightly around Tatum, wary as they looked over Adrenna.

Nothing in my shadows told me she had malicious intent, though, and I trusted that.

I nodded the beast forward after they were a bit ahead, trying to keep them more separate so he didn’t get the need to hunt. He seemed to understand that and went forward slowly.

~“You did well, Little Luna,”~ Kai said in my link, in wolf form next to me, and despite being powerful, it felt nice to have him flanking me, keeping me safe.

~“Do I get a reward?”~ I smirked, and he laughed in my head.

~“You know you will. Any idea on how we’re going to convince the witches to let us turn the beast back and Adrenna? Last I heard, Tabby said the witches weren’t happy with her betrayal.”~

~“And I meant what I said. I’m going to use the fact that we are the ones currently maintaining the balance to my advantage. I have the border magic; it listens to my will, not theirs, not the realm's, and I can feel it inside me, ready to do what I ask. If I asked, I think it would let me siphon the magic from her. I won’t need the witches’ help. I just need them to not kill her the second I make her human and turn their beast back,”~ I explained, and he was silent.

~“They can’t kill humans. They can’t interfere with them,”~ Brax said in my head then, and I grinned.

~“That’s what I’m relying on.”~ I smirked again.

~“Clever, beautiful. But it might piss them off. They might decide to stop letting us come out of these things alive.”~

~“We’ll see, or they’ll appreciate me neutralizing the threat to their precious balance. Either way—”~ I stopped talking, my magic growing hot in my palms, my shadows spitting inside me, angry and writhing.

“Something’s wrong,” I whispered, peering through the trees, looking around me, trying to find the source of my discomfort.

~“Kai?”~ Derik asked, and he sniffed the air. The beast did too, growling low as he pawed the snow. I checked behind us, but I couldn’t sense anything.

“Get Adrenna back to the city,” I ordered the pack.

~“What’s going on?”~ Tatum asked.

~“Vampires,”~ Kai hissed in the link before snarling, his eyes turning everywhere, checking every part of the forest as he pushed me behind him.

My magic flowed from my palms, my shadows twisting with it, some kind of bond formed between them that helped them work together so well.

~“We should stay to defend you and our luna, Alpha,”~ Tatum argued, and by the way my magic was thrashing inside me, I wondered if he was right. So I used the only thing I had.

“Beast. Go to Adrenna. Run her to the city. Do not kill her. Give her to Derik, then go to the barn and wait; we’ll be there soon,” I ordered, and it whined, nodding to the forest.

“The pack are staying here to help, and you’re the only one tuned to Adrenna in case this is a trap and she gets in the city to hurt us. I need you to stop her if that’s the case,” I explained, and it huffed before its eyes turned determined, and it nodded once before running up to the pack that was a long way.

I heard Adrenna squeal before the beast ran away with her. It was risky to send him with her, especially when he wanted to kill her and had to fight the magic inside him not to, but it was our best bet because the vampires were getting closer.

I could sense them now, and my magic was angry about it, which meant they weren’t coming to talk.

~“Protect her, Nikolai, or I’ll serve your heart at dinner,”~ Derik warned in the link.

~“I can protect myself, thanks though,”~ I interrupted, and Kai scoffed, growling low as the pack came to us, circling, forming, ready for the fight they knew we were getting.

The vampires were moving in fast, running so we couldn’t feel them until they were close. My magic swirled around us, covering the snow in purple mist. My heart raced as I checked every part of the forest around us, waiting to be ambushed, waiting for the vampires.

~“Tell me when the beast is there,”~ I said to Derik.

~“He’s close, he’s running fast, and he has Adrenna alive. I can hear them,”~ Derik said, and I let out a breath of relief, glad the vamps weren’t after them.

***

~“Something is wrong, Spitfire. Zale and Enzi feel it; they’re warning me with their shadows. They’re unsettled. Get back to the city,”~ Brax ordered. I frowned, looking for the incoming ambush. I couldn’t see it.

~“We don’t have time,”~ Kai snarled, more in tune with his wolf and the vampires than I was.

~“Make time. Get our mate back to the city, Nikolai,”~ Brax snarled down the link. I swallowed hard. I trusted Zale and Enzi; I trusted Brax, but if we didn’t have the time, then how could we run?

“We won’t make it?” I asked Kai. He frowned, looking around the forest before snapping his head back to me and shaking his head with a slow, somber gesture. I nodded, sucking in a breath before speaking down the link again.

~“I’ll get back to you and them. I promise,”~ I said. Then I had to pull away because the vampires were there. They didn’t pause like last time; they didn’t give us that creepy stare. They just attacked.

Running full speed, they were on us. The entire pack launched into the fight, as did Nikolai. I used my magic, throwing it at vampires, sending them flying, breaking the necks of ones that came for my wolves before they could touch them.

But there were a lot of vampires. More than I had seen in one group. Even the ones around the wall had been spread out, but there were a lot here, and that had me nervous. Why had they sent so many? Sacrificed so much of their army for one ambush?

Nikolai bit through another vampire, tossing it into the snow as I fought off a vampire that tried to get past my magic. It couldn’t. I was strong, and so was my will. My magic and shadows were a team on their own, enacting my will on the vampires.

It spread through them, taking out each one as it tried to attack and kept it even for my pack and my mate.

Until there was a crunch behind me. I spun just as a vampire dropped down from the tree above me. I crumpled beneath the weight of him, my magic immediately rushing to save me, but it was too late.

Silas grinned and locked my wrists in silver shackles. My magic hissed and writhed as the shackles dragged it back into me. I fought it, trying to kick Silas off me, but he just grinned, his strength much more than mine.

The shackles locked my magic inside my body, weakened my shadows as if they were sedated. They clawed inside me, trying to scrape their way back out, but they lost that fight, and it went quiet in my body.

~“Nikolai!”~ Derik screamed. Then he was there, tackling Silas from my body, shoving him into a tree with a feral roar that shook the ground. I stood up and brushed myself off, trying to yank the shackles off, but I couldn’t.

They were locked on me, and every time I moved, they burned my skin. Another vamp went to grab my shoulder as Kai fought Silas, their bodies loud as they clashed, and Nikolai tried to take him down. But he was old, fast, and strong, with so much backup.

And then the wolves started turning back to human, roaring and whining as their bodies were forced to shift.

“My magic,” I whispered in horror as it stole the control of shifting from them. Without the moon either, they couldn’t turn.

~“Keep fighting, get away from them, we’re coming!”~ Brax called down the link. I saw him running with Derik and more of the pack, but they weren’t going to make it.

I saw that when Nikolai turned, his human body twisting into shape, he didn’t miss a beat and tried to take down Silas. But the vamp sidestepped him and locked his wrists in shackles too. Nikolai growled as the pack fought but lost.

~“Derik, I understand that things are getting bad out there, but I’m going to need your help in the city. The wolves have no magic and have already started in the declination of their control. The buddy system is no longer an option, and I’m not sure how many I can keep away from the humans,”~ Galen said in the link. Tears sprang to my eyes.

Rage shook inside me as I shoved my heel into the nose of one of the vamps. He snarled and backhanded me so hard, my head spun.

Nikolai growled and went for me, but Silas nodded to more vamps that came in to keep Kai locked down. It took ten of them, but they kept him away from me. It only took three to keep me in place.

~“I’m almost there with backup, Spitfire. Derik’s heading back to help Galen with the humans,”~ Brax said. I sucked in a breath.

~“Who is with the twins?”~

~“Cain and Beenie. She said she needed to be. She warned us, Spitfire.”~

~“About what?”~ I gulped.

~“That things are about to get a lot worse. That the pack is going to lose something. She was crying and said to stay strong, that they won’t break you, but asked if you could save Kai. She begged, said he wouldn’t survive this again if you didn’t help him through it,”~ Brax strangled out. My eyes flew to Kai, who was wide-eyed.

We both knew what was happening, what was coming.

The vampires were taking us, and it wouldn’t be to accept the offer of Silas’s hand in marriage. It would be to torture us until we gave him what he wanted: the pack, the city, and control.

Which we wouldn’t give up. Not when I was going to spend every minute making sure I got my mate out alive and protected the pack that had accepted me when no one else had.

~“I’ll keep us alive. You keep the pack and humans alive. It’s going to be bad without my magic, but I need you to keep everything together until I get us out,”~ I cried in the link, refusing to let a single tear fall when my heart was breaking for what I knew they were going to feel.

~“Don’t let them take you, beautiful. Please. We can’t—”~

~“I’ll close the link between us, I have to. We won’t survive what they are going to do if we can feel the pain in each other,”~ I said as Kai stayed rigid, his eyes dark and heavy as the vamps pushed him to his knees in the snow.

The pack had been subdued, on their knees as Silas came around to me, a smirk pulling at his smug face. I swung at him, but he just laughed, moving out of the way.

It was a distraction though, and when he stepped to the side—closer to me—I ripped out of the vamps’ arms and sunk my teeth into Silas’s neck. Toxin leaked out of my canines before I was ripped off.

“Have some toxin, bitch.” I grinned, and Silas snarled, gripping my throat and squeezing before looking over his shoulder.

“Kill that one.” He nodded to Tatum, and before I could stop him, the vampires holding Tatum on his knees broke his neck.

I screamed past the hold on my throat as the entire pack whined and howled in my head. My heart broke, the pain crushing my heart as I felt the death down to my soul. He was an elder; he was one of us; he was Kai’s beta. The tears fell, and I lashed out at Silas, who laughed.

“Oh, was he important to you, little winter born? So was my flesh. Rip it with those teeth again, and another one dies. Do you understand how this works?” He snarled, and I clenched my jaw shut. His grip tightened, and I refused to cower despite the oxygen in my brain depleting.

My head swam, and I tugged at his grip as Kai fought the vamps that held him.

“I’m going to separate every piece of skin from your flesh if you don’t let her go,” Kai snarled, and Silas eyed him with a laugh.

“And how are you going to do that, Nikolai? Every vampire you kill is another pack member you lose. Every taste of me you get will be another scar on your mate,” he threatened.

“You have no leverage here, Alpha, and now that I have my little playthings all tied up and ready to play, I think it’s time we leave so the backup on its way finds death, not us, hmm?” Silas said, turning so his bright red cape flicked snow everywhere, his naked torso as white as the innocent puffs.

His eyes were as red as his accessories. He looked crazed and excited. It was a dangerous combination, and I was terrified. Not that I would show him that. He wouldn’t get anything from me.

Kai roared as he fought, but it was no use. The vamps had us.

“Take the Alpha and Luna. Kill the rest,” Silas ordered, and before I could release the scream in my throat or Kai could release the pain and anger in a roar, the vampires knocked us both out.

Darkness claimed me, and I knew waking up was going to be my worst nightmare. But I couldn’t wait because the shackles weren’t going to stay on forever, and the second they were off, I was going to take Silas out.