Where The Ice Gives Way (Charlotte and Blake) novel Chapter 135

Chapter 135 Where the Ice Gives Way

No sit the walk in us of was, thad, and sliding paws. I throw my weight forward, shoulder slamming into the rogue blocking our

way that somes from the site and does in doven into the snow, Shanti slips between us, white for streaked red at the shoulder, her

For Inally fading sugod as the scrambles of the ice. Reffer cuts through me, but then I look up. The woods are full of wolves.

Pay and gue salie s the strank, toties crashing between the trees, teeth flashing, paws tearing through snow and frozen dirt.

We is still from the tapusing arugh, cambing mer fallen bodies, throwing themselves at every wolf trying to hold them

But how I saw him in the far site, massine and pay driving into the line with a marl that shakes the air. He takes one rogue by the

Sanders Taxes the deadly wooing for the next round him, our pack fights hard. But there are too many. I have never

at many place. They come from every direction. It feels like every lost wolf in the world has found us today.

corge bags for that form the late, and I them into it before it gets close. My teeth close around its neck, and Lex rips it away, but

fat mas bad and far behind that. Tan saris beside me, blocking one with his body as Shanti ducks under another’s

me and tags to lens lay the in thead I can test in the way her steps drag, and in the tremble that runs through her shoulders

fatter she turne.

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Valera verras in from the trees before I can answer, all dark fur and reckless force. He hits a rogue, and they both tumble through the www I made it, Then, throws throng, the halk, breathless. Then a scream cuts through the bank as one of ours goes down under three Wow. The vend felt whatever was lost of it. We’re king, even with Dad here, and our pack tearing into the lines as fast as they can. There we still tow many, Bovery sorgue that falls leaves space for two more to push in. Every breath costs blood. Every step we take forward, they fore we track toward the lake, Lux’s voice rips through my mind. Howl.

1 were my teeth, thoning into another rogue, forcing it back with my shoulder. I glance at Shanti. Blood is dripping down her leg now, her chest heating, het eyes locked on the roques fighting to reach her. If I can stop them long enough, maybe she can reach what’s left inside them. Then a forge crashes into Titan and sends him sliding sideways through the snow. Shanti turns toward him, and three more shift with her, all of them Grawn by that single movement. Charlie. Theo.

What? Charlie snaps.

Hold them off long enough.

Charlie answers, low and fierce, understanding what I need. Do it.

They’s voice comes through right after. Freeze these fuckers already.

Titan drives himself back between Shant) and the nearest rogue. Yelen hits the line beside him. Two patrol wolves close in from the other

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side. They form a rough wall, bleeding and snapping, giving us a pocket of space that won’t last long. I move to Shanti, and she turns her head toward me. Her eyes hold mine, and the bond between us pulls so hard it feels like a hand around my ribs. Together, I send.

She steps closer, shoulder brushing mine. Together.

I plant my paws in the snow and lift my head. Lex rises through me, but standing with me, pouring everything he is into the sound building inside my chest. I think of Dad, Mum, the pack, my brothers holding the line and my girl on the ice. I think of her sacrifice to keep the humans safe-no more. The howl tears out of me. It rolls over the bank, deep and commanding, shaking through the trees and across the lake. The meaning inside it is simple, brutal, and absolute. Stop. The world locks, and for one impossible second, everybody

stills.

Rogues freeze mid-lunge, teeth bared, paws braced in snow or sliding across ice. Pack wolves stop with them, caught in the command as it slams through the fight and pins everything in place. Then Shanti howls beside me. Her sound rises through mine, bright and raw, slipping past the command and into the broken silence underneath. Where mine holds them still, hers reaches. I feel it move through the bond, feel the strain of it, the aching pull as she calls into every ruined wolf around us. Come back.

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