When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 184

Luna Demetra.

“Come on, white bitch!”

Cassie starts circling me. Both hands clapping together the way fighters do when they want to get inside your head before they get inside your space. I track her movement and I track the faces around us.

The students are pressing closer with their phones up already. I swear I never thought I would be doing this so soon. I feel incapable.

But then I also remember that I lasted when I fought her in the woods. I didn’t win. I didn’t even come close but I didn’t die. So maybe I won’t fail in the next five minutes.

But I really wanna win.

I want to put her face in the floor.

I wanna smash her face into the floor for that bullshit she pulled in the woods. She would have really loved it if I fell down that cliff and died. That takes a special kind of hatred. And I cannot have someone who hates me like that having victory over me.

“Come here.” Cassie beckons with her fingers. “Make this easy for me. We don’t have all day to spend circling each other. Don’t worry. I’ll only carve a circle around your face like I did with Jennifer. Rachel. Alexis.” She pauses, tilting her head. “And what were the other two’s names? I swear I don’t remember. I also slept their boyfriends after my victor. But you don’t have one, do you? So I’ll just take pride in ripping the flesh off your face instead.”

“There’s no way she’s allowed to do that!”

I snap out of it for a moment and say it out loud. Only for those idiots in the Dragon Class to chuckle. Laura and the other professors don’t say anything either.

So I guess she’s really allowed to do that.

Fighting dirty is mandatory. While I’m still thinking, Cassie comes at me.

Fast with her fist aimed at my temple.

Quickly, I do the move Emris taught me. Her punch comes fast but I don’t just evade. I do the backflip, my body rotates in the air, and I kick her hard in the face when I drop down. The kick sends Cassie at least five steps back from me!

Blood pours between her fingers cause her nose is broken. Bent sideways with cartilage poking through skin. A whoo ripples through the crowd as I land back on my feet. Oh. Did i…did I just do that with my feet? Emris is.. really a good teacher.

“You FUCKING whore bitch! I’m gonna kill you!” Cassie screams and comes at me again.

This time, it’s different. It’s just rage.

Cassie attacks with her claws fully out! She swipes at my arms, my shoulders, my chest. Her claws rupture the long–sleeve top I’m wearing, shredding the fabric like paper.

She’s not fighting anymore. She’s butchering.

Her claws rake across my forearm in four deep lines of red that well up instantly. She’s trying to pull out every piece of flesh I have.

“Stay down!” she shrieks, shoving me backward.

I stumble and hit the ground as air knocks out of my lungs.

Cassie is on top of me.

Her claws come down again and again…scratching at the fabric of my top to get to my face. At some point, my sleeve gets caught in her claws and I

Successfully unlocked!

one more time at the same depth…it will

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stops being clothing and starts being skin to bone.

I can feel myself losing. She’s fighting from every damn angle. The blows are too much. I don’t have enough training to calculate the mathematics of where her legs and hands and even fangs are coming from.

Somewhere behind the scene, I see Laura put her face down and chuckle.

Something about a Trybrid like her looking down on me makes me wanna-

I quickly lift myself up. I can feel my blood warming and my skin is knitting itself back from the injuries.

I need that fusion back that I felt back at the white omega pack!

I think about that feeling. The feeling of charge when Anita put her claws into my spinal cord. That unlocking. That moment when something ancient inside me woke up and said finally.

The moment I am able to think about that feeling-

I scream and it pierces the air. It pierces Cassie. She slaps her hands around her ears as her face contorts in pain. Her mouth opens in a silent howl until I stop.

I place my hand on my throat….that… that was a growl. It felt like a growl in my throat. But it sounded like a

scream.

“Get up.”

I say to her because I don’t want to win like that. I want my hands to end it. I want to end it the way Emris would end it. And not just that. I can feel my wolf in full control now. I’m not afraid like I was before when I felt my wolf encroach into me the first time. It’s not scary anymore. It’s empowering.

I can feel it in my veins. In the flow of my blood. I can feel my fangs right under my tongue, waiting. And now I‘ m waiting for Cassie to get up.

She does.

She twists her neck and glares at me.

We get into it once again!

But the difference now is…I catch her fist.

My wolf is so capable. So fast. It catches her hand before her next move can even start. I yank her by her ponytail and get her to her knees.

She lands hard.

“Try again.” I say.

I can’t believe what’s happening right now. Working with my wolf isn’t scary anymore. She’s not my evil twin. She’s not the thing that threw a girl into a wall. She’s me. And I’m her.

Cassie gets up again and swings.

I catch that fist too. I twist her arm and bend it the wrong way. I find myself on her shoulders, my thighs squeezing her head as I throw her back to the ground.

Her face hits the wood and her already broken smashes flat.

I yank her hair up in a ponytail and force her face toward the students.

“Confess it! You pushed me off that cliff. You moved the guide arrows to get us away from the cameras deliberately.”

“Let GO-”

I hear the snick of my own claws coming out and I bring them up where she can see them.

“I’ll give you that circle you kept talking about. The one you put on Jennifer. Rachel. Alexis. The ones whose names you can’t remember. Are you ready?”

“PLEASE. Not my face – Demetra, not my face, I’m sorry, I did it, I did it… I pushed you off the cliff, I moved the guide arrows, I moved them so the cameras wouldn’t catch us, please….please don’t-”

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“Apologize to Wren.”

“Wren.” Cassie has tears running on her face. “Wren, I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have done any of it, the bathroom, all of it, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, please-

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I let her go until I’m off the basketball court entirely.

The court is still for one second but ends up in clapping… from one section to another until it’s the whole room. I think that means I’m in Dragon Class now.

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