Tempted By my Evil Lycan Stepbrother novel Chapter 66

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Chapter 66: Call From Mom

Riley’s POV

The next second, smirk dropped from Ezra’s face.

I instantly knew he was done playing around.

“Get them,” he ordered his teammates.

“Run!” I snapped.

Silas and Odin didn’t need telling twice. We turned and shot down the slope just as dark figures broke away from the ridge above

Huge Lycan wolves. All five of them.

For a second, all I could hear was the pounding of wolf paws and the rush of wind in my ears. Then I risked a glance back and my stomach tightened.

Ezra’s whole team was coming.

I’d seen them before, of course. Everyone in school had. But watching them hunt together like this was something else entirely. They moved like a single body with five sets of claws. One cut across the left trail. Another dropped lower to block the ravine. The other two spread wide, closing the angles before we even reached them.

And Ezra-

He stayed on the ridge, his bow still in hand, taking in the

le

I like a king deciding where the next piece should fall.

A chill shot down my spine.

It wasn’t just that his team was strong. It was how terrifyingly well they used that strength.

Five Lycan warriors. All brutal and trained. And at the center of them stood the prince himself, born with royal blood and sharp enough to turn a chase into a noose.

“They’re boxing us in!” Silas shouted.

“I noticed!” I yelled back.

An arrow smashed into the rocks near my feet. Sparks flew. I jumped aside, and Odin shifted on the run, his wolf bursting through his skin in one violent ripple of fur and muscle.

“Safe point ahead!” Silas barked.

I saw it then-a pale marker line carved into a stone shelf higher up the mountain, one of the protected zones that was set up specifically for the wounded students. No violence was allowed within the zone.

We sprinted for it.

The slope was a nightmare. Gravel slid under my boots. Branches whipped across my face. Somewhere behind us, one of Ezra’s teammates let out a sharp howl and the others changed direction instantly.

That made my pulse spike even harder.

They weren’t chasing blindly. They were driving us. Forcing us uphill where the ground narrowed.

Odin crashed into one of them hard enough to buy us a few more seconds. Silas grabbed my wrist and hauled me around a jagged rock outcrop when I nearly slipped. Another arrow hissed past my shoulder so close I felt the wind of it.

Then we crossed the line.

The three of us stumbled into the safe point almost together, gasping and filthy and furious.

A second later, Ezra’s men arrived at the edge of the boundary and stopped dead, glaring at us.

I bent over, hands braced on my knees, trying to drag enough air back into my lungs to keep from passing out. Beside me, Silas was breathing just as hard. Odin shifted back, shirt forn half open, chest heaving with sweat and dirt streaked across his skin.

“Pah,” that Hensen guy spat at us with disdain. “Coward. Hiding in the safe zone.”

“It’s part of the rules,” I snorted.

“Riley is right. We can’t hunt them now.”

Across from us, Ezra came down from the upper trail at an easy pace. There was a lazy, arrogant smile on his lips.

“You run fast,” He rested the bow against one shoulder and looked me over with that infuriatingly calm expression. “I thought I could end this game today.”

I straightened, wiping sweat from my jaw. “And you fight dirty.”

One of his teammates laughed.

Ezra smiled. “Congratulations. You can live for another day now.”

I stared at him. “Do you want me to thank you for not shooting me in the back too?”

His eyes gleamed. “Depends. Were you planning to sound grateful?” /

“Not really.”

He chuckled and his gaze flicked to my teammates and then back to me. “So you’re still trying to win this?”

“Yes,” I said. “Would risk everything I have to see the prince lose the game to me.”

All of Ezra’s teammates growled in anger. Yet Ezra’s mouth curved a little more. “Good. Then I’ll see you at the next hunting set.”

Then he turned, signaled to his men, and left.

For a while, the three of us just stood there trying to catch our breath. Then Odin let out a rough laugh and dragged both hands through his hair. “Holy shit.”

Silas leaned against the rock wall and stared into the dark where Ezra’s team had vanished. “Well. Now we know what we’re dealing with.”

I said nothing. I knew if this was real battlefield we’d have been killed by Ezra and his men already. Lucky for us this was just a

game.

Silas glanced at me. “If we take them head-on, we lose for sure.”

I sat down on the edge of the stone shelf and rested my forearms on my knees. “I know.”

Which means that we need a plan. A good one.

We stayed in the safe zone to reassess. But the rule also stated that we needed to leave the safe zone after 6 hours. So we gathered by a small bonfire to discuss the next step.

We were in the middle of a heated discussion when my communicator rang.

All three of us froze at the same time.

The sound was so wrong out here that for a second I thought it came from inside my own head. Then it rang again, thin and

1 pelled the device from and stand the screen

OUTSIDE LINE

He’s right Competitors weren

No calls No help.

pen. That device is for internal

allowed outside contact deging Hunting Season. The whole point

So if this line got through, some

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