Page 30 of Magical Sass for Three
Then the gripping pain shot through her and brought her to her knees. This was deeper than the surface pain in her arms, which paled in comparison. Constance and Abigail’s claws in her arms had nothing on the searing pain that shot through her limbs. This was true pain that tore through her body and nipped at her soul.
“What did you do to her?” Albert’s voice was too far away.
“Nothing,” Constance said. “She just buckled over. We’re only holding her arms down.”
“Then release her!” Albert demanded.
Hanna fell all the way over as the claws retracted from her shoulders. She couldn’t take air into her lungs as she thrashed on the ground. Something was tearing her from the inside out.
Free me, something said at the edge of her mind, something deep within her.Let go and accept me.
She didn’t understand anything beyond the pain. It rippled through her body until it was all she could think about.
“It’s your wolf, Hanna,” Derek’s voice drifted through, but he didn’t sound close. “You have to free it.”
“Derek? It hurts. Please!” Her body felt like it was ripping itself apart piece by piece.
“We’re coming, baby,” Kyro’s voice was there, too. “But you’ve got to let your wolf out, or it’s going to hurt more.”
“Don’t. Know. How.”She couldn’t think straight, no matter how hard she tried to hang on to her mates’ words.
“Trust your wolf,” Derek said. “Focus on it and let it guide you to it.”
She’d do anything as long as the pain stopped. Whatever spoke to her didn’t seem hostile, so she tried to follow its words. She opened herself up to whatever the voice was. It was like releasing a death grip on a balloon and allowing it to fly heavenward. Suddenly, the pain stopped, and she was free.
“Shit!” Constance yelled. “She’s a wolf.”
The world shifted and seemed different. Where Hanna’s hands had rested on the floor stood front paws, brown fur with black and white spots covering the tops of them.
Wolf? They meant her. She was a wolf.
The world seemed sharper somehow, more vivid with life. All her surroundings were clearer than before as if she’d been walking in a haze all her life until then.
Hanna didn’t take long to find her sister’s immobile body. She turned her eyes to the man who would never be her father. He’d killed her sister, and she had a promise to keep.
Before she could realize the primal instinct filling her, she charged for the man just before he could send the same ball of gray energy to end her. He didn’t want to kill her? Right.
She jumped high into the air and knocked him on his back with a hard thud. No time was wasted as she sunk her teeth into his neck. Blood filled her mouth as he screamed. The metallic but fresh taste edged her on, making her clamp tighter on her grip.
He tried punching her sides and tossing her off, but she was too strong. She could feel the power of her wolf filling her up, unlike any magic she’d ever known.
“Get off me, beast,” he said, his voice strained in the gurgling of blood.
One deep clamp of her teeth was all it took to finally make him go silent and lifeless. This was just. What he’d done to her sister couldn’t stand, and there was no telling what he would have done to her.
Growls filled her ears as she released her hold on him. Abigail and Constance had shifted into their wolves.
It looked like more sadistic asses were getting a taste of her new wolf tonight. Two against one didn’t matter. Hanna was ready for them. She’d go down fighting, no matter what.
“Not so fast, baby,” a familiar voice said. “We’re here for you.” Derek. He was there. He stood next to her, but she didn’t take her eyes off the wolves before her.
“Sorry we took so long,” Kyro said. She recognized his wolf as he took up the other side of her.
Derek and Kyro.Her mates.
“Damn straight, and we’re not going anywhere,” Kyro confirmed.
The wolves of Abigail and Constance glanced over at Hanna’s mates, and a deep growl filled her throat.
