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A side of him with no business showing up in the middle of a war pushed forward and forced him to step back. The girl was no older than Faith.

But then again, her people took Faith, too, and Goddess knew what they were doing to her. There was no room for compassion anymore.

Still, he backed out of the room and went down the stairs. Killing these Hunters wouldn’t satisfy him as much as killing the ones behind the base wall.

‘Let’s go,’ he ordered.

Dylan came in from another part of the house in his wolf form—a grey wolf next to the smaller brown one that was Ryker’s warrior. He didn’t stop to see if they would obey his command without question. Frustration filled him up as, once again, his need to obliterate all the Hunters went unsatisfied.

He crossed the road on the quiet street into the woods and shifted to his human form. Dawn was breaking; the rest of the world was waking up. In the distance, he heard the wails, the screams.

The Hunters at the base would hear them, too. They would come.

They had to.

Chapter 55

Did she mishear him?

Layla’s eyes widened as she looked at the unhinged Hunter in front of her. She’d only briefly been in the restricted area, but she knew what those disfigured Hunters were—failed experiments. So the Commander was ready to risk his life after one successful bite?

They weren’t even sure if there would be any side effects. It hadn’t been long enough to tell if the experiment succeeded.

“Didn’t you hear me? I said bite me, Layla,” the Commander said.

He stepped forward, forcing her to take a step back. His eyes sparkled as if he was high on anticipating what was coming. She wanted to bite him—right through his neck. But there were guards in the room with their weapons pointed at her, and she didn’t know if Faith and the children were safe. They were her priority.

“You’re willing to risk your life?” she asked.

“I’m not risking anything. Don’t you see what I’ve done?” he asked, turning back to the glass cage and sweeping his arm at the turned Hunter. “I have done something they said was impossible. I have elevated my people to a place every Hunter will remember in history. I’m the man who beat the wolves. The man who risked everything to rid the world of this plague.”

“By becoming one of us?”

Crazy. The man was wholly unhinged, with no business being in charge of anything.

“I will always be a Hunter. I will always be better than an animal,” he hissed, turning back to face her.

“Are you sure? If you let that man out of his cage, who will he kill? Me or you? Who is his Alpha?”

There was a hint of uncertainty in the Commander’s eyes, but it disappeared quickly.

“I am his Alpha. He was born to hunt animals, not people. Do you think this is our first breakthrough? My soldiers are one hundred per cent more effective than in any other sector because of me,” the Commander said. “But if you want to test that theory, I’m more than willing to oblige.”

The Commander grinned and turned back to his creation.

“What is your primary objective, soldier?” the Commander asked.

The Hunter in the cage stopped pacing and faced his leader. He stood perfectly still though his eyes still flashed. The wolfinside him was unstable, yet he showed control of it. But he was still...off.

She sniffed the air again and opened up her senses. The Hunter’s heartbeat was elevated, and she sensed anger in him. The darkness that shrouded all the Hunters still engulfed him. But if he successfully turned, wouldn’t his wolf still have to adhere to its nature? Wouldn’t it have to submit to a real Alpha wolf?

“To bring victory and pride to the Hunters by destroying our enemies,” the caged Hunter said.

Even his voice was steady.

She looked over at her mother and saw the worry in her eyes. Having wolves in the Hunters’ corner would lead to the end of everything. The Commander would win, just as he was so confident he would.

Her fists clenched again as her anger returned.

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