Twice Tempted: Between Two Alphas (Mia and Cameron) novel Chapter 89

Chapter Eighty-Nine

Nala runs.

She pours on the speed and we race along the shoreline of the lake, toward the mountains that were in my vision. I’ve been here before as a child. Healmsworth lands butt up against this vast stretch of preserve. The memories are vague.

Time seems to ripple or maybe it’s just my consciousness.

The sights and smells are similar to my vision but not quite the same. The mountain is exact. The river. The position of the stars overhead.

I run so fast my heart feels like it will burst out of my chest.

Please be safe.

Please be safe.

I round the bend and cut into the woods.

I smell it now. The familiar scents.

Death and old earth.

Blood.

Wolves.

I reach the clearing in the woods where this swatch of trees opens up in the valley. I stop so short my hindquarters scrape the ground.

It’s carnage.

The wraiths are dead, spewn across the grassland like lifeless soldiers. The ones from my vision. Their hearts ruptured exactly as I foresaw.

But behind them, many more wraiths battle.

I see Jace and Liam, Michail and Declan.

Cameron is in his lycan form. He fights with Cassian. They slash and bite, Cassian’s beauty is peeled back to a feral creature, one more monster than man.

The brunette that had been spared…she rises.

Blood drips from her mouth. She approaches Cam’s blindside.

I don’t think.

I run and tackle her. My front claws dig into her shoulders and I hold her down. I snap and snarl at her face, letting her know I could kill her–I will kill her. She goes for my eyes with nails as sharp as talons.

I shift back partially and head butt her.

The moment of shock helps me to restrain her.

When I glance at Cameron, he has Cassian pinned.

Cameron is winning.

He’s not in danger.

Cassian’s bleeding from the self-induced cut on his throat and from the many gashes and bites from Cameron’s massive wolf.

I watch as Cam sinks his claws into Cassian’s chest.

There’s a brutal crack as the sternum and ribs split.

“No!” I shout. I don’t know why. The instinct boils up and I can’t contain it.

Cam’s attention is divided. He glances at me and it is all the distraction the vampire needs.

Cassian rolls with Cam and slices his clawed fingers across Cam’s throat.

“Nooo!” I scream again.

Oh my gods, what have I done!?

Cam gurgles. He growls and brings up his hind legs, eviscerating the vampire before tossing him aside.

Both males lie on the ground. Bleeding out.

I hurl this changeling vampire aside and rush to Cam.

I slap my hand over his neck. “I’m here. You’re okay.” He’s not okay, not remotely. “Shift. Come on, Conn. Push all the way through. We need to seal these arteries.”

Cam’s eyes are glowing gold and I know he wants to, but he’s losing so much blood.

“Now!” I demand. I am his Luna and Cameron is tied to me.