Page 39 of Resisting Fate

“How did I?” the other one asks, sounding just as surprised.

“What is going on?” I ask, looking around.

Ryker and Penelope come rushing towards us.

“Hailey, did you see what you did?” Penelope asks excitedly.

I shake my head. “I don’t know. I just saw that Isaac was about to get torn to pieces and I felt undeniable pain at the thought of losing him. Then it’s like everyone froze, so I ran to him and saw all the blood. I wished that he would be okay and felt desperate as some sort of power left me. Next thing I know, he’s okay,” I say, looking at them in confusion.

“You froze everyone somehow and then healed him,” Penelope says proudly.

“I don’t understand. How? I’m not a white wolf,” I say, confused.

“I think it’s because you are part witch,” my mom says while walking up to us.

“You must have come into your powers in all of your pain,” my father says thoughtfully.

“I don’t even understand what I did,” I say, shaking my head.

“You have the power to heal, and I think you froze everyone to get to Isaac in time. I’m not entirely sure how it works, but I do know you can heal people. Not just physical injuries either. It looks like you are also able to heal mental ones,” my mom says, looking at the two shifters who were just feral.

“It’s like I was asleep in the background. I just lost my mate when my lion pushed me back and I woke up here. I don’t know what happened,” the guy says in disbelief.

“This is an interesting turn of events,” Penelope says in excitement.

I look over to where Ashley is and see that she’s being held by Jet and Calvin.

“How did she get out of the holding cells?” I growl out, wanting to rip her throat out myself.

I see another wolf being pulled forward and it looks like Jeremiah, one of Isaac’s friends who always hung around with him.

“What do you think you are doing disobeying an alpha’s orders?” Ryker asks in a low, dangerous tone.

“You will never be my alpha,” the guy sneers out before spitting towards Ryker.

Ryker smiles at him coldly. “Well, if that’s how you feel then you will be banished from the pack and pack lands.”

Everyone gasps. I heard enough from Ryker and Max to know a wolf without a pack will go crazy. They need the pack bonds if they don’t want to lose themselves.

Usually, people who are banished aren’t accepted by other packs.

Jeremiah’s face pales, but he doesn’t protest as Ryker orders some pack members to send him home to pack a bag and walk him out of pack territory.

Ryker turns back and looks at Ashley. “Now, what are we going to do about you?”

“I challenge Hailey Weston for her mate, Isaac,” Ashley says before anyone can say anything.

Isaac

My mouth drops open when I hear the words. I have never wanted to mate anyone else but Hailey. Ashley is just throwing the challenge out there because she knows that challenges end in death.

Ryker grins at her words. “Alright, if you want it that way.”

I can tell he fully believes that Hailey will win this challenge, or he wouldn’t have willingly sent her into a life-or-death situation.

I pull Hailey closer and whisper in her ear. “You can do this, baby. She has nothing on you.”

She nods her head. “She thinks I’m a weak wolf since I was changed and not born into this, but I’m about to show her just how wrong she is.”

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