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Aaron Carter stepped out of the sedan, and I immediately understood why he was so confident. The red ooze that covered his car was all over him, rippling along his skin as it had done to Kostas. Only this didn’t smell like dark magic. It didn’t smell like the magic in my veins.
His gaze locked onto mine immediately, and the smirk on his face didn’t falter as he took in the shadows curled around me. It didn’t falter when he saw the smile on mine, either.
Behind him, the other doors opened in sequence. Wolves stepped out one after another, all covered in the thick red magic, and their movements controlled but not relaxed. There was tension in their shoulders, and a subtle hesitation in the way they spread out.
It meant that they understood, at least on a primal level, that this wasn’t going to end cleanly.
“Half the city is talking about you,” Aaron said, his voice carrying easily across the open space.
The morning rush hour was just starting to ease on the main road, and there were several cars filling up at the station. Aaron had chosen the worst time for a supernatural smackdown, or perhaps the perfect plan. Humans panicked easily and spread chaos quickly. They were the least united of all the kingdoms.
But they barely registered anymore. My attention was on the way the magic surrounding these wolves pressed against my senses.
I was hungry. Starving.
My shadows flickered around me, and whatever lingering concern I might have had about the humans dissolved completely. My gaze swept across the wolves instead, calculating everything. The distance, their positions, the tiniest movements they made. And then there was the fear thickening in the air. The weakest link would make the most mistakes. He’d be the easiest target.
But I didn’t want the easiest target.
My gaze cut across the four lanes of traffic to the other side of the street, and something beneath my skin tightened. He was there, somewhere among the rushing pedestrians, just watching. It wasn’t just instinct; I recognised him. My magic stirred inside me, still unsettled by what he had done to me. Maybe unsettled by what he had left inside me.
“Are you going to fight in the middle of the human world in broad daylight?” Hunter growled beside me.
“It’s your call,” Aaron said with a shrug. “Either you get in the car with us, or we make you.”
My wolf rose fully now, more alert than before. A challenge. Did this little bastard think he was a match for
me?
“Do you really think I’d just get into your car?” I growled, my voice low and steady. “Have you forgotten what I did to your brother? Oh, wait, you didn’t see it. You left him there and drove off like a fucking coward.”
Aaron’s gaze flicked briefly to the wolves behind him before his expression darkened, but there was still no
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fear in him. There was only righteous anger.
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“I didn’t leave him,” Aaron hissed, stepping forward. “He didn’t follow the rules.”
His anger didn’t elicit an emotional response out of me.
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“The consequences of a confrontation here are imprisonment and then permanent exile from the hu kingdom,” Hunter said.
Aaron’s top lip curled as his gaze shifted between us. Hunter had masked his aura, but no one with even a shred of instinct would mistake him for anything other than what he was. What made a young alpha feel like he could take on a Lycan? My gaze shot across the street again.
“My father wants to meet you at the park you went to last night,” Aaron said, and then, with a mocking bow, added, “Please get into the car, Your Majesty.”
The pressure from the other side of the street eased as it moved away. My shadows and wolf tracked it as easily as following the golden threads of a scent. I didn’t spare Aaron and his friends another glance as I stepped off the forecourt onto the pavement. That was the real hunt, not Aaron and his little friends.
“Hey, I’m fucking talking to you,” Aaron shouted. “Get into the car!”
Hunter moved with me. His presence was steady at my side.
“Are you sure about this?” he asked quietly.
“No.”
But I wasn’t going to admit that this was what I wanted. Hunter had called it bloodlust, and after what I saw the shadows do, I knew that was true. The hunger had shifted, sharpening almost painfully. It wasn’t just about feeding anymore; it was about finding something that could finally push back.
My shadows wrapped tightly around me. I notice until the gasps broke out behind me. Our exchange had attracted the humans, and some of them had their phones pointed at me, but that still didn’t raise any alarm
in me.
“He’s heading to the park,” Hunter said.
I didn’t waste time. The city blurred as I ran, and the cars slowed. Sound dulled as if everything was in slow motion, and every step landed cleaner and faster than the last. Whatever the witch had done to me, it wasn’t weakening me.
The park entrance came into view, and I slowed just as the pressure increased slightly, enough for me to feel it but not crush me as it had done the night before. The scent of magic was heavy in the air, and I was well aware that we were walking into a trap. Even if I hadn’t noticed the red ooze pulsing over the whole park, I had already sensed strong auras hiding beneath it. Alphas. They’d cleared the park of humans just so they could have this showdown.
The moment we stepped inside, the first wolf lunged. He came from the left, aiming to close the distance before we could fully react. But he was no match for me. I smelled his intentions before he even moved.
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I didn’t move until the last second, until I felt the heat of his body on my cold skin, until I caught the slightest shift of his muscles that told me how he was going to move. My shadows snapped upwards, catchi forelegs mid-air and wrenching him sideways like a rag doll. The ground dented, and bones sha impact. The wolf didn’t get back up.
I hadn’t slammed him down that hard. Something inside me had changed again.
The second wolf came at us straight away. He came in low, aiming for my legs, but Hunter intercepted hi before I needed to react. His shadows lashed out in a single, clean motion, slamming into the wolf’s side and driving him into the ground. Again, the wolf didn’t move.
Power spread through my veins, feeding the thing inside me that wanted blood. And that unfamiliar magic inside me weaved through all of it, but it didn’t worry me.
The rest came at once, closing in from every direction, claws tearing into the ground, their jaws snapping, bodies colliding as they tried to overwhelm us.
I moved through them without thinking. My movements were cleaner, and every strike landed exactly where I needed it to. I didn’t shift because these wolves were not what I wanted. Their blood seeping into the earth didn’t call to me like the man still hiding in the shadows.
But something else caught my attention. At the entrance, two cars rolled to a stop, and Aaron and his friends rushed out. They shifted as they lunged, moving faster than the other werewolves.
As the first wolf reached me, my claws extended, tearing through his side. The impact sent him skidding across the ground with the same force I’d used on the others. But he didn’t stop. He pushed himself back up with a snarl that didn’t match the damage he’d taken,
There was no hesitation or pain. My head tilted slightly as I watched him, and after a moment, I saw it. The red ooze clinging to his form also pulsed beneath his skin, like it was holding him together.
Another wolf charged, aiming for Hunter, and then another. Their movements became more reckless as they charged at us, this time one at a time. They were pushing forward, forcing us to react, forcing us to expend
energy.
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