Kidnap Ella Cora spins to look at me, her eyes wide, and together we both run for the window. Cora gets there first, unhooking the latch and throwing the window open, bending out so that she can see. I lean out too, my eyes scanning the ground below.
My gaze locks, instantly, on the action.
A man one whose figure and face I’ve glared at too many times in the past few days – drags a small girl by the hand. He has his arm wrapped around the waist of a woman. She fights against him, but her movements are sluggish.
“He’s got them,” I say, grim, and then I look to the side at my sister, determined.
“Tell Sinclair. Stay with the baby.” Cora stares at me for a second and then her eyes go round with shock. ” Ella,” she says, reaching out for me, Ella, what -” But I’ve already turned back to the window, and before I can even think about what I’m doing, I transform into my wolf and surge out.
I hear my sister scream my name behind me, but I’m already gone, leaping from my narrow window ledge to the next below us, and then another, steadily working my way down the palace wall as fast as I my paws can carry me. The majority of my concentration is on aiming my jumps and ensuring that I land in the right spot, my wolf’s instincts taking over, but a little part of my mind is suddenly grateful that my wolf is small and nimble.
Sinclair, with his gigantic wolf, would never be able to balance on these small ledges, and neither would Roger.
girl screams again as my paws hit the flagstones of the courtyard and I’m already moving across them towards the man who drags the woman and the girl
guards begin to converge, their guns raised, but they hesitate when they see that Xander
through the air, a steady
thinking that their King isn’t going to like it very much that they let me take the lead. But my authority
he hears my snarl, looking first above my head as if he was looking for a larger wolf. Then his eyes fall, meeting mine, and
yanks Jessica closer to him and Sarah struggles anew, though her movements are slow. I focus on
he’s still a wolf. He is stronger, innately, and his determination
bared fangs. Xander just scoffs at me, beginning to turn away. “You cannot touch me, she- wolf,” he snarls. “I will rip
growls, “and I will kill her, she-wolf. You can keep the old one – I have no more use for her. But this one?” he says,
already on the run, playing his last card? That won’t cow
to take him out, he may do his best to leave as much collateral damage in his wake as he can.
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