Page 207 of Shadow City: Silver Wolf

Then tell me you understand.Even in this horrible situation, the corners of my wolf’s lips tipped upward. I hadn’t realized the extent of how badly I wanted a relationship with him, and now that it was possible, I felt happy, despite the horrible current situation.Or I will be forced to make you laugh.

I don’t plan on going anywhere,he reassured me just as Saga stopped.

She breathed in loud, short gasps, making it easy to determine that she was standing at Unibrow’s feet.

My head and chest were lodged under Unibrow’s back, but if she moved to my right, she could hit my back or my side. Either option wouldn’t kill me, most likely, but it would hurt like a son of a bitch. However, if I moved, she could get an even better shot.

As if she read my mind, she fired, but I burrowed under him to the best of my ability. She must have been so angry that her hands shook, causing her aim to be off.

Keeping my head clear was hard with a dead man on top of me. The scent of his blood was overwhelming. His skin was already cooling, making his death harder to ignore. Damn it, I wanted her to come right up to me.

“Get up. You’re coming with me,” she spat. “Hiding under a body won’t prevent what’s going to happen.”

I’m on my way,Bart linked as his paws hit the ground, moving closer to me.

No one else needed to get hurt on account of me.Focus on your fight.

Don’t worry,he replied.I took both of them down.

Thank God. With his help, the fight would be over soon. From the sounds of it, they were getting things settled back at the house. I connected with all the silver wolves, as well as Killian and Griffin, and felt them begin to celebrate victory, but the fight wasn’t finished.Don’t get overconfident. We might be winning at the moment, but that also means they’ll grow desperate.I repeated the words my father had beaten into my head.Desperation makes people crazed. They’ll do whatever they can to take down whoever they can.In rare cases, their desperation could even give them leverage to come back on top, but I didn’t want to worry the others more than I already was.

Got it,Killian said.We’ll be careful, but with the vampires here, hopefully we’ll end this soon.

Vampires? Really?

Yeah.Griffin sounded even less thrilled than me.It was a shock. The vampire king, vampire prince, and a handful of their own guards showed up with the Shadow City wolves to help. They stayed back and watched until we were obviously winning before stepping in, but we weren’t in a position to turn down help in case something went awry or we risked insulting them.

That was true.No, I get it.

I’m on my way to you now,Griffin promised.Things are under control, and Alex and Matthew are also heading your way. They have speed that could come in handy with guns.

Those words would normally comfort me, but not now. I didn’t want him to get here and be hurt, but if I tried to dissuade him, that would only get him to come faster.

“You do realize that you won’t make it out of this alive,” Saga continued, and her footsteps shuffled over, I assumed so she could shoot me in the back.

My body tensed of its own accord, bracing for impact.

Bart growled.

“What? No!” Saga screamed, and a gun fired.

Something crashed hard on the ground. I pushed the corpse off of me and scrambled to my feet. What I saw would forever scar me as Bart’s pain washed over me.

Saga stood over my uncle and fired another shot between his eyes. Tears burned my eyes as hysteria licked throughout me. While she was distracted, I pounced on her back, forcing her to fall on top of my freshly dead uncle.

This bitch had taken so much from me. She’d not only kidnapped my brother but slaughtered my family members. If Cyrus didn’t make it, I didn’t know what the hell I would do.

“Get off me,” she screamed as she tried to roll away from my uncle. I chomped down on her right arm, the very one she usedfor the gun. If I ripped her arm off, she’d never shoot anyone again.

For the first time, I didn’t mind the taste of blood. In fact, I relished it. This woman deserved to bleed for every damn thing she’d done to us. My mind grew hazy with so much hate and anger that I felt like someone else.

Sterlyn, watch out!Cyrus yelled through the bond, snapping me out of whatever warped reality I’d been in.

I stumbled back and let go of the wretched woman, realizing I was acting just like she had—crazed with the desire to kill.

The other wolf!he screamed again.

Shit, I hadn’t kept an eye on Luna like I’d planned. I pivoted to find her jumping toward me, her eyes locked on my neck.

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