Chapter 202
The Elder staggered back and held a hand over his wounds but from the choking came a laugh, a dark chuckle as he lowered his hand and his wound started healing. That shouldn’t be happening, he should not be healing from that, not that quickly anyhow. Nora’s head whipped to the side when his fist cracked her jaw and our eyes locked for a moment. Pain dripped from the tear that fell down her cheek and a look of defeat covered her eyes.
Her eyes widened immediately and she lifted her finger and pointed toward me.
“Behind you!”
I turned in time to see a face, a woman, and following her face came an indescribable pain as her claws slashed at my stomach and ripped through my flesh.
“FUCK!” I fell to my knees and the screams rippled through me and exploded over the field. Everyone turned their heads, time slowed and I looked up at the bitch who was preparing for another hit.
My eyes locked on hers and something unleashed within me when I saw her proud yellow eyes and that sickening desperation to finish the job.
Her hand came down, and the sound of claws slicing through the air took a moment to reach my ears but when they did I grabbed her wrist, my eyes still holding hers, and I bent her hand until I felt the break of her bones vibrate in my hand and her proud gaze turned to fear and pain.
“I’m only getting started,” I promised as I got up and dug my claws into her stomach and pulled up like opening the zipper on a bag.
Her screams stopped midway, her voice ceased to exist and then finally life left her eyes. But I was unhinged, something was out and I was not putting it back. I looked around, this unknown feeling consumed me completely and as I turned around I grabbed a man’s neck, “They’re mine,”
I twisted his neck until his eyes pointed to the Elder.
Gabe ran up and shifted mid-air into the Lycan he was, it was magnificent to see and at the same time terrifying knowing I had three of those inside of me.
The pain subsided quickly and I looked down, the wounds were healed already, almost completely.
“You better survive, you hear me?” I said and drew circles over the healed skin as I caught my breath.
They all fended off those who tried to get to me but it was a rigged war, we couldn’t win, not when he had Demons and immortal humans fighting his battle. I pinned the Elder down with my eyes and something didn’t make sense. Why did he show Zade his wound when he commanded him?
Zade couldn’t tell me what he wanted me to know and his riddles kept taunting me endlessly. All I had to do was figure it out and we could all walk away.
The only reason a person wouldn’t be able to talk was if they were under order by their Alpha but Zade didn’t have an Alpha.
He helped us before, in the Council, he helped us escape. If he doesn’t have a choice but to follow the Elder’s orders, maybe the same rules apply. The Elder might not be his Alpha, but he is calling the shots. An Alpha is tied to his pack by a blood bond, which is why only he can order them. If the Demons were tied to the Elder, maybe all I had to do was break the bond.
“Do you think it’ll work?” Trixy asked me.
“There’s only one way to find out,”
I locked in sight and sprinted towards him.
“HAZEL!” Darian growled behind me.
“No, no, no!” Nora reached out to grab me but her nail nicked my skin when I ran through her grip, she was fighting her own- this one was mine.
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The Alpha’s Hunt
