Page 116 of The Wolf King's Mate

My wolf sat up, and though we couldn’t speak, I knew what she was thinking.

The girl was going to die… unless we tried to save her.

My teeth lengthened. My wolf was ready. But the only time we’d tried in the past, it had almost killed me.

What if it really did kill me this time?

“You’re going to be fine,” I told the girl.

We both knew it was a lie.

Her eyes closed.

A tear tracked down her cheek.

“What happened to her?” I asked the driver.

“Her dad was one of the rogues. His pack wouldn’t let her leave, even though she was the only one in human form. They were all insane. We don’t know how long she’s been out there.”

My throat swelled.

She looked so young.

Seventeen or eighteen. Maybe nineteen.

I couldn’t let her die.

I just couldn’t.

“I’m going to try to change her.” My heart pounded fiercely. “If it works, she’ll be a werewolf. Enzo will know how to make sure she’s safe. If I don’t make it, tell him… well, tell him to protect Nova.”

“What are you talking about?” The enforcer sounded agitated.

Worried.

I didn’t have time to explain, though. And if I did, it would only give him time to argue that my life was more important.

It wasn’t.

At least I’d gotten to live nearly twenty-six years. I wasn’t letting a teenager who’d been trapped in the forest with insane wolves die.

So I lifted her arm to my mouth, and I bit her.

I felt the drain on my energy immediately. Every hair on my body seemed to stand up straight, and the energy felt electric as it left me.

My breathing went ragged.

My vision started to wobble.

The girl gasped and jerked upward. I didn’t have the strength to hold her down any longer, but she didn’t roll off my lap.

The drain on my energy grew fiercer.

My wolf growled when my vision spotted.

I released the girl’s arm. The connection between us had officially been created. There was no turning back unless I killed her. Which wasn’t going to happen, since I was risking my life to save her.

Though the world was spinning around me and everything had gone out of focus, I felt a rush of something.

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