Page 116 of Feral Mates
Kai was tossed to the floor, muscles torn and blood flowing.
“No. No!” Savannah cried, but the sound wasn’t one of despair or pain. “Never again!”
It was a battle cry.
“You little bitch,” Thanatos snarled, throwing his arm out with intention of using a killing bolt. I threw myself in the middle and instinctively, she jumped to the side.
In her hands was the electric prod, the end already sparking from the high voltage selected.
Knocked to the floor, I managed to pitch my body away from another blast just as Roman lunged from behind.
While Roman’s body jerked from being driven against the force field, the hit had been hard enough that Thanatos was pushed forward.
And directly into the end of the electric prod.
“Take that, you motherfucker!” The force field was immediately slammed shut, the high voltage entering every cell and muscle in his body until he was lit up like a Christmas tree.
There was something awe inspiring about the stench of frying flesh.
Every sound from her luscious lips spurred my desire. She was a true warrior, as determined to protect us as we were of her.
The three of us could feel the joy in the caged beasts, their howls no longer ones of despair. They knew soon they would be freed.
While I stumbled to my feet, she hit him again. Thanatos threw his arms out, his entire body jerking as if placed in the electric chair.
We didn’t allow the moment to go to waste, attacking from all sides. Our claws ripped through his flesh, our canines crushing bones.
He managed to throw several bolts of current, but his power was being drained with every passing second. With a hard blow from my paw, he stumbled backward, finally smashing against the edge of the table and slowly sliding to the floor.
Savannah was shaking, her face pinched in fury and a moment of satisfaction. But the fight wasn’t finished.
Not yet.
“Don’t look. Just back away,”I told her.“And trust us.”
“With my life,” she whispered, obeying my command and backing away.
I was lucky enough to see Thanatos’ expression of shock when we lunged forward together once again as if in formation. The monster had no chance, not against the three of us. Together, we sank our canines into the man who’d wanted to play God.
The vampire intent on sucking the life from beasts and humans alike.
As the light slipped from his eyes, I realized there was no usual satisfaction, just profound anger from what he’d put so many creatures through.
When it was over and he lay dead, as I’d done before, I threw my back my head and howled. So did Kai and Roman.
This time, our cry wasn’t just one of victory. It was a warning to others to flee and never return.
“Oh, my God. I can’t believe this,” she whispered. “I’m so sorry for everything. You’re hurt. He hurt you.”
“We’re fine, little mate,”Roman told her. “There were no killing blows.”
There would have been had she not been by our side. Perhaps unconvinced, she pressed her hands on our wounds, shifting from one to the other as tears slipped past her lashes.
Her sorrow was geared toward everything that had occurred for weeks, months that had led up to this moment.
And for what the future would bring.
“The soldier,” she moaned, breaking free and crouching down by his side, pressing her fingers against his neck. “His pulse is weak, thready.”
