Page 305 of His Sunshine Baby

“I can’t believe it!”

“Some are taking our injured!”

"Yeah, I saw them taking Joe!”

Crap, Joe? Joseph Lewis got injured? I look for him, but thank Moon Goddess, he’s alive, though he is moving farther away from me. I focus my mind-link and, with Nora, we relay the same orders in unison.

“Cooperate with the humans! Give them space to shoot and let them take our injured away!”

“Make sure they don’t get to the front lines and stay out of their shooting range!”

Moon Goddess, this might be what we needed to win this fight! The arrival of the humans along with mine and Nora’s auras fueling the battle give a newfound strength to the werewolves and the fight resumes in a better light.

However, our own battle is far from over. The Water Witch is not giving us any chance to approach her, and the vampires are resolute on defending her. It seems like she didn’t just control the Vampire Queen; she must have made it so that they would protect her to the end! I try to keep up, find an opening, but Moon Goddess, she doesn’t give us any rest.

Sylviana is losing ground too. I don’t know why, but our witch is slowly starting to make mistakes. She’s too busy trying to defend all of us. With me, Nora, and Nate back, she now has five people to protect from Nephera, who’s just attacking blindly and trying to hurt us as much as she can. I’m worried about the quantity of water she’s slowly gathering too. She controls it like tentacles, whipping it around and sending water spikes hereand there. I dodge one at the last second, but it still grazes my shoulder. I growl back.

I need to get to her. I focus my aura on myself, making the glow even brighter and bigger. The vampires step back, afraid as if I was holding the sun itself in my hands. I growl furiously, jumping on one of them to kill them, and run past the others, trying to sprint to Nephera. Liam catches on to my move, and jumps right after me.

We are both determined to reach the witch, growling and speeding up. She sees us coming and for the first time, something that looks like fear appears in her eyes. She moves her water tentacles, trying to whip them our way, but we jump, roll, dodge, and do our best to keep going. Sylviana intervenes to protect us too as she sends a new salvo of water spikes, blocking it with a branch. Nephera steps back, frowning and panicking. We are almost there! I show my fangs, ready to bite. Anything I can do to take that damn witch down, I will! Liam is growling furiously right behind me too!

Suddenly, something breaks behind me, and I hear Liam’s scream of pain in my head. Don’t look, don’t look, keep going! I finally jump over the witch, and for half a second, I see the fear in her eyes before I furiously bite down. I unleash the beast in me. I bite harder, like an animal, like a furious savage. It’s not hard. I hate that woman, I hate her for what she did: how she hurt me, killed Reagan, and tried to hurt my baby! She screams loudly in my ears, and I’m suddenly pushed away by a wave, rolling in the mud before I brutally hit a tree.

“Selena! Liam!”

I hear Nate and Nora’s screams, but it takes me a while to come back to my senses.

“It seems like the first time wasn’t enough! You bitch! How much do you need me to tear you apart this time!”

I need to get up, get back on my feet, and get away from here. Come on, get up… It’s like my whole body is numb. My head fucking hurts. It hurts… I open my eyes, growling a bit, fighting to stand.

A horrible wave of pain pierces me. I scream loudly because of the excruciating pain. I feel my scar being ripped open from my shoulder down, the flesh tearing under the pressure. I’m suffocating, I can’t breathe when my whole body is screaming in utter pain.

“Shall we try going a bit lower? Hm? See if you can heal that!”

I scream again and that crazy bitch, whatever she does, it intensifies. I’m on the verge of passing out, but the sharp pain is what keeps me very much awake. I want to die. I want to die, anything but this horrible pain, I can’t. I can’t take it.

“Selena!”

Furious growls suddenly surround me, and whatever was torturing me suddenly stops. I want to faint, but my mate’s smell calms me down. Oh, Moon Goddess.

“Selena, hang on, hang on.”

Something cold numbs my pain, and Nora’s white fur is covering my vision. I can feel my cousin’s aura, gently surrounding me, healing me. This is the best sensation ever, like some fresh, cold snow applied to my injury.

Nate is on top of me, guarding me like a furious dog, growling. I hear a fight going on nearby, but I can’t see.

“The witch…”

“It’s okay, Sunshine, Damian and Liam are keeping her busy away from you. Just give us a minute to heal you.”

“Liam…”

“He… He’s okay.”

Why just okay? Can’t Nora heal him too? I heard him getting injured before me. Did she just focus on me? Did Nora heal him already?

I try to find my inner wolf, reconquer my aura, and the glow comes back, helping me regain my strength. Moon Goddess… Nora steps away, and despite my sore and painful shoulder, I know I can go on like this. It’s bearable. I growl a bit for Nate to give me some space and get back on my feet. We are in some sort of wooden trap, probably Sylviana’s emergency solution to protect us from the vampires while Nora was healing me. Those blood-suckers have already gathered around to attack the minute they can though.

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