A Warrior's Second Chance (Faye and Alexander) novel Chapter 481

“You know,” he continued mockingly, “for someone with your reputation, I expected something more dramatic.”

A few Stonevale wolves laughed quietly behind him.

I ignored them completely.

My focus remained fixed on one thing only.

Distance.

The exact number of steps between me and Darren,

The exact amount of time it would take him to react if I lunged directly for him.

Too risky.

Not with the wolves positioned this tightly.

One delay.

One obstruction.

That dagger reaches Faye first.

No.

I needed a cleaner opening.

“You walked into sacred Stonevale grounds alone,” he said. “That was either very brave or very stupid.”

Still-

I said nothing.

And that seemed to irritate him even more.

Because men like Darren wanted reactions.

Wanted fear.

Wanted visible emotion.

And I was giving him absolutely nothing.

The growling around me intensified again.

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Several wolves were becoming restless now.

Waiting for permission.

Waiting for blood.

Then Darren finally lost patience.

He motioned toward me lazily with the dagger.

“Kill him.”

Everything happened instantly afterward.

The wolves exploded forward almost at once.

Growls ripped through the clearing violently as claws tore into the ground.

Fast.

I bared my fangs immediately.

Claws extending from my hands in the same second as the first wolf lunged toward me.

The first wolf reached me from the left.

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I caught him by the throat before his claws could connect properly and slammed him hard into another wolf charging behind him.

Both of them crashed into the dirt with snarls.

Another came at me immediately after.

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I twisted sideways just as claws sliced through the air where my face had been a second earlier before driving my fist directly into his jaw hard enough to send him skidding across

the clearing.

Everything around me descended into chaos almost instantly afterward.

Growls.

Snarls.

Movement.

Bodies.

The clearing erupted violently.

Three more wolves lunged at me together.

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I barely had enough space to move properly now.

One clawed across my shoulder.

Another aimed for my side.

I blocked one strike and elbowed the wolf beside me hard enough to crack bone before

spinning just as another pair rushed from behind.

Fast.

Too many.

And every second mattered.

My eyes kept flickering back toward the altar.

Toward Faye.

Toward Darren.

That dagger was still in his hand.

That was the only thing that mattered.

One wolf leapt toward my back.

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I grabbed him mid–air and threw him directly into another attacker before slashing my claws

across the chest of the wolf closest to me.

Blood sprayed across the dirt.

The smell hit the air instantly.

But I barely registered any of it.

Because my attention kept pulling back toward the altar.

Toward him.

Toward the blade.

Another wolf lunged for my throat.

I ducked beneath it and drove my claws upward violently.

A sharp cry tore through the clearing.

Then-

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“Darren!”

The witch’s voice cut sharply across the chaos.

“Hurry! Do it now.”

Everything inside me tightened instantly.

I looked up immediately as my attention shifted-

Fear hit me.

Real fear.

The kind I hadn’t felt in years.

Darren stood closer to the altar now.

Still gripping the dagger.

Still staring directly at me.

And then-

He smirked.

A slow, cruel smirk.

Like he knew exactly what I had just realized.

I wasn’t going to reach him in time.

There were too many wolves between us.

Too many bodies.

Too much distance.

Even if I tore through every single one standing in front of me-

I still wouldn’t make it before he brought that blade down.

For the first time in a very long time-

Hopelessness hit me.

Violently.

Because I could see it happening already.

Could see the dagger rising slowly in Darren’s hand.

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Could see him preparing to drive it down into Faye’s chest.

And I couldn’t stop it.

Another wolf crashed into me from the side but I barely felt it.

My entire focus locked onto Darren.

Darren raised the blade higher.

My chest tightened so hard it physically hurt.

I moved forward anyway.

Desperately.

Violently.

Trying to force my way through the wolves in front of me.

One grabbed my arm.

Another slammed into my side.

I tore free aggressively, but it wasn’t enough.

Not fast enough.

Then suddenly-

A howl ripped through the woods.

Loud.

Powerful.

Dominant.

The sound exploded across the clearing so violently that everything stopped instantly.

Every single wolf froze.

Including the ones attacking me.

Several staggered backward immediately in instinctive submission.

The force behind the howl rolled through the territory like a shockwave.

Even the trees seemed to still afterward.

Silence crashed down heavily over the clearing.

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Darren froze completely beside the altar.

The dagger still raised in his hand.

The witch’s expression changed instantly.

Not confusion.

Shock.

Real shock.

Then slowly…

Heads began turning toward the forest behind the clearing.

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