Page 253 of Wolf Endangered

"Sorry to inform you, but she is," he declared with confidence and lifted his left hand up as if he were trying to show something off.

"What?! Impossible!" Garfield snapped.

I was clearly clueless, as was Viktor, until Loki moved his hand to the side so we could see the back of it. The clear bonding mark that resembled Onyx's was displayed on his hand.

"W-What?!" I literally gasped and looked at Viktor. "T-That isn't possible. I didn't initiate a bond mark like Willa did to Saint!"

"You did," Viktor muttered, and for a brief moment, his eyes went prism-like, like his magic was filtering through those silver spheres. "I warned you, remember? You took something of his in exchange for releasing the collar. By doing so, you initiated a fated bond, and because you're both wolf shifters, it only made sense for it to be exactly that. This confirms Onyx is of royal roots."

"One more message for the queen, Garfield," Loki announced, drawing our attention once more as the ground began to shake a third time. "The Yin and Yang Shadow Heirs will never bow down to her. Just because we've been lost, that doesn't mean we won't find our roots. When we do, she'll be on her knees begging for our mercy. I swear on our parents’ graves."

With those words, he shifted with the crack of his bones, and before we could further react, he was tugging me out of Viktor’s hold and throwing me on his back.

I landed with an oomph, and Viktor landed more gracefully on his back before Loki was darting away.

"Wait! We're fucking running?" I screamed and looked back, only to curse. "SHIT! AVALANCHE!"

"Get off the mountain!"Viktor ordered through the pack bond."Avalanche!"

Loki was running at full speed again as the rush of snow fought to consume us. Viktor hooked an arm around my waist to steady me as Loki moved at triple the speed than when he was running away from the mutant creatures.

"How are you running so quickly now?" I asked as if Viktor could answer.

"He's using the charge of magic vibrating through you," Viktor replied. "The activated bond is still establishing because you just came back to life."

He must have had a point because I was beginning to feel the connection taking shape, but the adrenaline to survive was pumping magic through my veins.

"Problem!"Saint's voice boomed through our minds.

What?!

"That avalanche is going to wipe out the town here. There was no warning. They can't evacuate."

Where's the town?!

"You're approaching it! We see you!"Jayce stressed, and there was my Forbidden Pack with Aurelia.

Even at the distance, I could see the immense relief in her dazzling aura, but the dread that filled her face only confirmed we were going to be in big shit in a matter of seconds if we didn't figure out how to stop this.

"Loki! Stop just at the group of people there!" I encouraged and looked over my shoulder to Viktor. "Can we stop it with magic?"

He looked at me, our closeness briefly taking his attention to my lips before he answered my question. "You're charged enough, but you're going to feel like shit after."

"Saving a town of innocent people in the middle of the night and feeling like shit after is good enough. Aurelia can fix me up by morning, and maybe we'll even get to go to the Pack House in the morning and kick Felicia's butt!"

"You really don't like breaks, do you?"

"I'll enjoy breaks when I'm dead!" I declared, and he only frowned. "C'mon. It fit perfectly there."

"My mom would have loved you," he muttered, and I couldn't help kisssing him for a second before I whispered, "She did, and said if you try to stop my fierceness, she'll smack you."

Loki swiftly turned as he came to a dramatic top, pulling us out of our brief moment before I was moving right off of the massive wolf -completely forgetting the drop had to be a good eight feet.

"Oh fuck!"

Neo surprisingly caught me, and I grinned at his judgemental frown before I gave him a kiss. "You can be mad at me later," I assured him as he lowered me down. "Aurelia!"

"Bitch, I know you have something up your sleeve, but no way can you stop that shit."

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