Page 24 of Reign of the Beast

It was the last thing I needed.

It had me focusing on the negative.

Normally, I could keep up with the positive, maintaining morale, which was vital as the leader everybody was counting on.

But, I was fading, big time.

I’d lost too much blood from hours of fighting. Taking that bite from that cocky vamp really hadn’t helped with that.

All I could think about was how fucking brutal it was going to be when this next wave hit.

There was no way we could push them back. There were hundreds of them.

We weren’t going to survive it.

Half a klick out now.

I shifted my weight, clenching and unclenching my fists over and over.

Quarter of a klick.

“Hold the line!” I bellowed.

A couple hundred feet.

A blinding flash of light had all of us hissing at the pain to our sensitive wolf vision.

I’d barely gotten over it when a shimmering blue wall shot up from the ground, going up about fifty feet.

The enemy hit.

And they bounced right off the blue wall, flying back several feet.

Goddamn.

What the—

A sweet scent hit me hard. Straight in the gut.

Coconut and strawberries, mixed with some kind of high-end perfume.

Nah, it couldn’t be.

I swung my head to the right, shocked by what I saw.

So much so that I had to do a double take.

“Mia,” I choked out.

“Alpha,” she returned with a sexy wink.

She turned away, concentrating on the magic she was streaming to hold that wall up.

Her long, blue and black hair was blowing about all wild in the wind. Even though it was pitch black, except for the fires raging and the explosion of magic coming from the enemy, I could make her out just fine with the aid of my wolf vision. She was wearing that tight fancy ass coat, black pants clinging to her shapely thighs that gave way to some fuck-me heels.

We were in the middle of a brutal battle, but just the sight of her had my cock rock hard, my whole body on edge wanting to throw her down and taste every inch of her.

After all this time she was here.

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