Big Bad Wolfie novel Chapter 51

Maria's POV

I gave the hybrid his knife back.

Right between the eyes.

I felt a slight twinge somewhere deep in my chest, but I'm good at ignoring it by now.

I honestly hate taking life. I really do. Even the worst people I have a bit of trouble with.

Even after everything they've done to me, it's hard to kill them.

Because the moon goddess cursed me with a conscience, d@mnit.

I don't know why. Not many other pure bloods seem to have one.

But I do.

So whenever it appears necessary to take someone's life, I'm always confronted with. . .

Who do you think you are? You're not the goddess. Why do you decide who deserves to live or die? EVERYONE deserves a second chance.

From my heart and. . .

I can decide because life's not about 'deserve'. It's about who's strong enough to take what they want. To do what they need to survive.

And it's not an option to let the bad guys get what they want, that'd be the end of the world as we know it, so it's up to us to be stronger, even when we're totally not.

From my brain.

It's not fun at all.

I heard the thunderous growling from everyone around me.

Oh, yeah. Back to fighting for our lives.

More hybrids popped out of the foliage.

Now there are six of them surrounding us.

There are seven of us.

I know they're technically the ones outnumbered. . . But that ratio doesn't give us good chances.

Three of the hybrids turned into their wolf forms and the others stayed as vampires with their fangs out.

Then they pounced.

"Run!" I yelled.

Everyone broke out into a sprint.

"Shouldn't we stay and fight?" Happy questioned, running beside me. "Six less hybrids for us to worry about."

"Oh don't worry, we won't make it far before they catch up and we're forced to fight. I just wanted to make it to this clearing and —"

Happy and I had to drop to our stomachs to dodge the hybrid in wolf form flying over our heads. Eyes glowing blue and deadly mouth in a viscous snarl.

We hopped back up and got into a fighting stance. Happy shifted, and so did Wolfie and Stephan.

I didn't let myself look at Wolfie's fighting form, I don't have time to be distracted.

Moon goddess, please don't let any of us die.

A hybrid still in "human" form set her sights on me. And smiled. A hungry, predatory smile.

Alright, let's get this party started.

I smiled back.

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Jason's POV

Holy s**t these f**kers are fast.

One of the bigger mutts made it from 30 feet away to nearly biting my leg off in a second.

And I'm not over exaggerating when I say that.

With the same speed, he dove for my right flank. I rolled out of the way but felt his teeth graze my fur.

I got a rush of adrenaline and Ki came to the forefront. We shared control.

When this happens, he usually helps me easily rip my opponent to shreds.

. . . I have a feeling this time might be different though.

I was right.

The mutt and I fought and fought and we couldn't manage to get the upper hand. The only thing we could manage to do was not get our throat ripped out.

People from my team and theirs would drop then bounce right back up.

The hybrids got up faster though. . .

They hit harder.

They fight dirtier.

What the h3ll are these psychos eating?

"Gah!" I heard her scream.

Ki busted to the front.

And I let him.

We finally ripped this sucker's throat out after a few more maneuvers with Ki's savage nature.

Ki swung us around to find what made our mate yell, thirsty for blood.

He found her with a new wound, but this one went across her chest.

She was still fighting though, there was even a hybrid near her feet, lying still.

'I will kill the one who did that to her!'

Hm. . . My heart constricted. It looks kind of similar to what we did to her.

His vision went red.

The claw marks across her chest almost match what probably turned to scars on her stomach.

Left by us when we forcibly marked her.

Well, when he forcibly marked her.

Ki let out an earth shattering roar.

While Maria was helping Cali fight, another mutt was about to jump her from behind.

Ki tackled him and ripped his sorry head off before he could realize what was happening.

He went over to the girl that Maria had dealt with that was laying still and did the same, just to make sure she wasn't getting back up.

He was about to maul the next hybrid Maria and Cali were fighting, just for being near his mate, but Maria beat him to it.

She snapped the hybrid's neck, that is. Once she moved on to the next, Ki finished him off too.