The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 256

Chapter 256

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Dominic’s POV

We pushed into the enemy territory at dawn with the advantage of surprise, and for the first hour, we held our ground. The Emberlight warriors were well-trained and larger in numbers but not especially coordinated, and our men were better.

But they had reserves that our scouts hadn’t accounted for. A second unit, larger than the first, coming in from the east. I saw them coming down the slope and cursed under my breath.

“Fall back to the tree line!” I shouted. “Hold the center!”

The second unit hit our flank hard. I pulled my sword out of a man’s shoulder and turned to find Ryan at my side, bleeding from a cut above his eye and-looking at me like he was waiting for a miracle.

“We’re getting cut off from the left side,” he said.

I looked. He was right. Three of our smaller units had been pushed back far enough that the gap between them and the main force was growing, and if it kept growing, they were going to be surrounded.

“Pull them in,” I said. “Get them back to the center, now.”

“If we do that, we lose the ridge.”

“If we don’t, we’ll lose the men.” I caught a strike from my left and drove my elbow back hard. “Pull them

in.”

Ryan went. I kept fighting.

The next twenty minutes felt like an eternity. We were holding, but barely, and every time I thought we had found a foothold, the Emberlights pushed back harder.

I took a hit to the ribs that would have broken something if I hadn’t turned at the last second, and another to the shoulder that I was going to feel for a week. Around me, my men were doing everything I had trained them to do, and it still wasn’t going to be enough.

I could feel it. The shift in the air that happened when a battle started to tip, the point at which our forces began to realize that this might be the end.

I was just about to call for an all-out retreat when a sound made me look up. A horn. It wasn’t ours, and judging from the way the enemy forces looked, it wasn’t there, either.

I turned just in time to see a fresh wave of warriors pouring out of the trees, hitting the Emberlight flank from the side in a formation I didn’t recognize.

For a split second, I thought another pack had joined the enemy forces.

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