Page 76 of Wolf Touched

Fire streaked the sky as Priestess Caroline used her magic on the enemy.

The blond wolf snarled and opened its mouth wide, lunging at me. I swiped my claws at it, hitting its snout. The enemy wolf stumbled back a step, whimpering and wiping its nose off.

We’re here, Josie linked as she and Dave joined the fight.

Huffing, the blond wolf rushed forward and bit into my left leg. Hot, stinging pain flooded me, but I lowered my mouth and sank my teeth into the side of its neck. My stomach churned as I again hurt an animal. All my life, I’d wanted to be a vet to help animals, and now I’d become part of nature, killing to protect myself and my pack mates.

The wolf whimpered, his jaws slackening, and he stumbled back. The gushing blood told me I’d hit the artery. He’d be dead in seconds.

“Get back herenow,” Priestess Caroline yelled, “before we can’t hold them off!”

Raffe sank his teeth into his opponent’s side, bringing the enemy wolf to the ground. Adam and Keith fought together, defending against the sable wolf while more wolves raced inward.

Come on,Raffe linked, his gaze landing on me.

I didn’t want to leave our pack out here without us.But everyone—

Once you start running, we’ll all be behind you,Keithshot back.Get your ass to safety so we can too.

I took off. Each time my left paw hit the ground, that leg wanted to crumple. I pushed through the pain and ran like hell.

Priestess Caroline, Avalon, and Faith were using their powers to keep the wolf shifters back. It was the only reason we hadn’t been taken over completely.

Raffe and I ran past Caroline, and I spun around. I almost cried with relief as Adam, Keith, Josie, and Dave followed us.

More wolves poured into the clearing where we’d been seconds ago. Wolf after wolf lunged, trying to reach us, and the coven members closed the gap between them, filling in and using their magic to hold them off.

“Priestess, how are we supposed to perform the spell when we can’t stop using our magic to keep them at bay?” the white-haired man I’d seen on the first day asked through gritted teeth as wind blew from his palm, throwing a wolf shifter into the top of a tree.

“We can’t,” Priestess Caroline groaned. “We can only do our best since we can’t put up a barrier between us and them.”

My stomach sank. Their magic would drain eventually. I understood that all too well because of how my own power worked. I needed to help them.

I closed my eyes, searching for the power inside me. It jolted, but I needed it to be a damn strong hum to get these wolves back so the coven could perform whatever spell they planned to.

Raffe, what do you want us to do? The coven can’t handle this much longer,Adam linked.

Get ready to fight when the wolves break the circle,Raffe linked.Lucy, whereare you?

Heading your way,she replied,I got Sky’s family into the priestess’s house.

If my magic was vibrations, I could cause chaos and make trees fall on them and the earth push them back. According to Priestess Caroline, since that was a wide scope, it wouldn’t be nearly as hard as targeting a small object.

I just needed to ignore the chaos and focus.

I’d never been able to purposely make my power stronger but now seemed like a good fucking time to try. I imagined what it might feel like if I lost Raffe and remembered the day the coven held a dagger to his neck, forcing me to believe they’d kill them.

My power sang inside me, the agony of the threat causing the power to flare. I kept envisioning exactly what I wanted to happen. Instead of merging together, the power spread out within me, but it didn’t have a chaotic feel as it had before.

Power pulsed from my paws into the ground, and the earth began to quake. Branches swayed.

It was working.

“What’s going on?” a woman asked from my left. “Is that the arcane-born?”

A tree crashed to the ground, and a wolf yelped.

“It’s working, Sky!” Priestess Caroline yelled. “Keep it going.”

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