Chapter 181

I get a split second to hear answering howls in the distance-Roberts pack members and the few guys I brought with me from the Rathbom pack-before the enemy wolves descend in a rush of snarling, glowing eyes and bared teeth.

I’m smaller than them, but I quickly realize I’m also faster.

I dodge snapping teeth and raking claws, but there’s too many of them, and eventually I have to fight.

I go low, clamping my jaws around a leg and biting down until I feel bones breaking. I lunge at another and bite its underbelly. But they’re circling and the next wave, I’m forced to defend more than attack because they are coming at me three at a time.

kicking out and

are an endless fury of motion, slashing and tearing, never stopping lest they get a hold of me,

be overcome.

of nothing except doing whatever it takes

growl, and another wolf comes streaking out

but this new wolf I don’t recognize-huge, silver, with darker fur around his muzzle and ears-begins attacking the

relentless, tearing through the other wolves at inhuman speed, and for the first time I think I might

on the shoulder and I can’t help but yelp.

wolf-face and chest now covered in dark crimson blood-lunges toward

into me.

another few moments, the wolves who aren’t already dead seem to finally get a hint that they’re outmatched, and turn tail,

shift back, panting, feeling nauseous at the blood spattered

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