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When I found her, she was crouched behind an old abandoned building near the edge of the city, where humans feared to tread. Most of the streetlights were out, and only one or two war houses nearby looked occupied, yet I sensed humans everywhere, their heartbeats scattered across the darkness.
Strung out or homeless, or out to make a quick buck, walking the streets nearer to the main road. Underworld bosses making shady deals with their armed bodyguards surrounding them. The rich mingling with the poorest. The people no one else in the city cared about, the ones who disappeared without anyone asking questions.
I dismissed all the human threats before my gaze landed on her again. She knew I was close; there was no way I could hide from her now. But she’d tried to hide from me. She’d used her shadows for cover, allowing the black tendrils to wrap around her until she blended with the night, yet I couldn’t sense them. Could they mask, too? I couldn’t sense her anymore, either. She’d masked herself for the hunt. If we didn’t have the fated bond, I wouldn’t have found her.
My senses went beyond her, to the other side of the building where a black sedan had parked between two overfilled dumpsters. They reeked as if something had been disposed of in them that the Bureau or human law enforcement would be interested in knowing about. I sensed two werewolves inside the vehicle. Alphas. Definitely wolves that someone would miss if they suddenly went AWOL, which meant their disappearance would spark questions we didn’t need.
Their scents drifted to me, and I tensed. I’d catalogued those scents already and saved them under my list of people I would kill once Kitty was safe. They’d had the balls to challenge her openly when Christos had named her his successor.
Kitty would be the first suspect if they turned up dead.
The door opened, and one of them staggered out.
“I said stay in the fucking car,” the driver said, his irritation colouring the air around them. “Piss in a bottle.”
“I’m not an animal,” the one who’d stepped out of the car said.
I smelled the alcohol on him even from where I stood. Just a kid about eighteen or nineteen, with a pimply face, curly hair, and a nasty slash across his face. Someone had got him good with a silver weapon for it to scar like that.
He threw an empty bottle across the lot, waiting until it smashed against something very close to where Kitty waited, before staggering to one of the dumpsters. Then he unzipped his pants and a stream of piss hit the rusty side.
My nose wrinkled. From what I knew of his pack, they all lived on the other side of the law and wore that infamy like a badge of honour.
“How long do we have to wait in this dump?” he said, glancing behind him at the car.
“Just wait for instructions,” the person in the car said, his tone sonding bored.
“But we could have had that bitch already. We were there for hours before she saw us.”
Oh? My ears prickled. It didn’t take a genius to figure out who heineant. So they had already staked out Kitty’s apartment.
“We don’t move without orders,” the other voice said more find
Tanner was already tailing a few people who trickled in from the werewolf kingdom, but we’d missed these fuckers. My money was still on Bronson giving them orders. One of them would lead us to the truth
The boy’s face morphed into anger as he zipped back up and walked towards the car. He didn’t get back in; instead, he leaned against it and pulled a pack of smokes from his pocket.
“We have that stuff in the car,” he said between puffs. “All we have to do is find a way to slip it to her, and she’ll be ours to do 1/3
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with as we please. I might make her squeal my name a few times before I rip her head off. Stupid whore.”
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My fists balled. I made to move, but Kitty beat me to it. She straightened, and the air charged. The shadows that had been hiding her suddenly burst forward, wrapping around the kid before he could say another word.
“What the fuck!” he screamed as the shadows tightened around is arms and legs, lifting him off his feet. His half-smoked cigarette fell to the ground beneath him.
And then the other shadows rose, forming into rotting, feral wolves as they surrounded the car. The kid stopped struggling as fear replaced his fake bravado. It leaked into the air, so heavy and thick that I could scent it from across the street.
Hunger flooded me, echoing Kitty’s, and when she stepped out from behind the building and inhaled, I did the same. It had been a while since bloodlust had ruled my instincts, but I plunged headfirst into it, the bond dragging me under before I could fight it. Like the pull of her first full moon, which I couldn resist because of our bond.
The urge to stop her disappeared, replaced again by my instinct to join her. We would burn the world down together if she wanted it because her needs would always come first, even above all the citizens under my care.
I stepped forward, and Kitty merely glanced back at me before strolling towards the bratty kid. And that detached look cooled my head a little. I had to stop this. These boys were likely our strongest lead.
“So you’re here to kill me, Little Justin?” she asked, cooing as if she was speaking to a baby.
“Let-Let me go,” the kid whispered. His whole body trembled so much that the shadows vibrated.
The sedan’s engine started. My gaze locked onto the driver hidden behind the tinted windscreen. I could have seen through it before, but now my vision had sharpened again. The driver looked like an older version of the kid, with all the same features. Only he didn’t have fear marking his expression, or any concern for his sibling. A snarl formed on his face, and his eyes burned with hatred. He didn’t look like he was about to run but how did he intend to fight magic he would never understand in his lifetime?
“I told you to stay in the car, you idiot,” he said.
I sniffed the air. I’d assumed the magic in the air was from Kitty and me, but now I picked up the faint red haze around the car. Someone had protected it. Looked like they were working with a coven after all. Zachary wouldn’t be so stupid as to try to go against us again, but who else could be so brazen?
“How could I let you go when you came all the way to the human kingdom to deliver yourself to me?” Kitty asked. completely ignoring the driver.
“You won’t get away with this,” the kid-Justin-whispered. “You’re already fucking dead, you just don’t know it yet.”
Kitty’s eyes began to glow. A smile formed on her face just as tha twisted anticipation rolled down the bond. It hit me again. That sweet euphoria flooded my body, and I shivered. I couldn’t resist it, because she couldn’t resist it. She wasn’t even trying.
“I’m looking forward to whatever you and your people have played for me,” Kitty said. “In the meantime, I’m going to give you a chance.”
The shadows lowered the kid slowly, as if he were a feast being fered to Kitty, and then released him. And then there was nothing standing between him and my mate. Nothing for him to hide behind
“Just one chance, Justin,” Kitty said, her voice lowering. I senseder wolf pressing close to the surface.
“Why don’t you show me what gave you the balls to go against after what I did to you?” Kitty continued.
The sedan’s engine revved again, and the car jolted forward, almost knocking into Justin As if the kid just remembered his brother was there, he rushed to the passenger door and tried to ink it open. It didn’t budge.
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“What the hell are you doing, Aaron?” Justin shouted, desperation layering his tone as he glanced back at the shadowy wolves surrounding them. “Open the fucking door.”
“You know the rules, brother.”
The kid slammed against the window.
“You’re going to leave me to die?” he screamed.
Aaron didn’t answer. Justin staggered and fell to his knees, and the satisfaction in the bond flared sharper this time. Darker and colder than before.
“Your family is full of scum, little boy,” Kitty said. “Of course he’s not going to save you. But I promised you a chance.”
Justin turned around, looking at Kitty as if he believed she was really offering him a lifeline. But he couldn’t feel what I could feel.
“I’ll give you two options,” Kitty said, crouching low. “You can run. Or you can challenge me.”
The hope on Justin’s face faded. Both options were a death wish You never ran from an apex wolf. And you never challenged one.
Kitty would satisfy her bloodlust either way.
The air suddenly charged with something unexpected. Excitement.
Not hers, but Justin’s.
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