“I never hurt Lily, I fixed her. I turned Layla into a pure hybrid, her wolf”
“Fixed her, how can you say that when you killed your own son, your research was floored, the bond killed him because you know nothing of our kind. Your crazy experiments, nothing good would ever come of them. Your mutations altered her DNA she was Lycan and Lycan bonds are different”
“Layla, I turned into a pure hybrid, her wolf, Not Lily. I severed that bond the day she shifted and made sure their bond couldn’t be tied. The perfect predator”
"Severed their bond, that’s what you think?” I ask, walking to the centre. I could feel my pack members on edge, ready to fight if they make a move, feel Reid getting closer to me, ready to pull me back and away from the danger.
“You never severed their bond; it was weakened but still there.”
Kade’s eyes dart to Lily’s dead body lying on the ground near the pack house. He goes to say something else, but I lunge at him, the entire pack moving like a muscle flexing as they feel me attack, they jump instantly into the action not even hesitating and a bloodbath ensues. They may have the numbers, but we have trained together, grown up together and know each other’s moves, weaknesses.
The entire pack fights as they start shifting into their wolves, moving like a synchronised dance. I swipe my claws across his chest, and he jumps out of the way just in time before I could reach his heart. His foot connected with my face in the same move, knocking me backwards. Before he could land another blow, Ryder jumps in his way, ripping Kade's arm nearly off and throwing him. My father running full force at him and I don’t have time to see what happens as wolves attack us.
Ryder’s pain floods into me through the bond as he blocks a rogue that lunged at my throat, sinking its teeth into his side. He stumbles back but doesn’t move from in front of me, taking the brunt of two wolves as they collide with him.
“Stop protecting me” I yell to him as I fight off another. He ignores me and I see that most of my pack are fighting next to the guest house where my kids are and circling around us, keeping them from me. It annoys me, but it’s in their genes and they can’t help but to protect their Luna queen. I lunge at a wolf as he goes to attack Ryder, my legs wrapping around its torso in a death grip as I sink my teeth into his neck. His blood spurting on my face and filling my mouth, giving me the strength I need.
We were outnumbered and I could feel my pack growing tired the longer we fought. They just kept coming, though as soon as we thought we were getting somewhere more came from the tree lines, from the town. They were going to win and my eyes darted to the guest house. I need to get them out.
“Get the kids out,” Reid screams, and I take off running. I was about twenty metres away, and saw a straight line leading to the guesthouse door. I was so close; I was nearly to my babies when I felt it. Pain radiating up my side as I am tackled, the force knocking me unconscious for a second, before I crawl to my feet. Looking up, I see Kade, my eyes darting to my father. I could see his body crumbled on the ground near a tree. Kade drops something next to me and I scream when I see it’s my father’s severed head.
Chapter 50
Lily POV
Waking up in the middle of a war zone was something made of nightmares. Wolves running around everywhere tearing each other to pieces, a complete bloodbath. Layla anxiously whining inside my head, at a loss I couldn’t process properly. Aria’s screaming, ripping my eyes away from the battle and in her direction. We were losing and I couldn’t see anyone I recognised from my pack. Layla growled angrily in my head.
“They’re dead!” She screamed, and that’s when I realised how completely empty I felt. The chatter of my pack had gone deadly silent. The mate bond was the worst, I could feel only a void getting bigger and bigger with each breath I took, all-consuming but I shoved it aside. Layla’s anger, pure rage simmering in my veins. She wanted blood, and I gave into the bloodlust, only it felt different as I let her take control of my body. Every fibre in my body, every cell that made me, shattering as an animalistic urge for blood took over.
Kade stalking towards Aria had me running in her direction but just before I get there a blur of black races past me tackling Kade only to be thrown off violently and into the side of the guest house knocking the wolf, I had never seen before unconscious but the agonised scream that left my sister’s lips as she lunged at Kade made my eyes snap to the wolf laying on the ground.
They were forced to shift and I knew before my eyes even landed on him who the beautiful black wolf is, feeling the Alpha Aura radiating out of him strongly. My blood boiling as I see the body of my nephew on the ground. He just saved his mother’s life.
Layla moving swiftly and Aria gasps when she sees me Distracted, she is knocked to the ground before three wolves jump her fallen form. My body is moving faster than ever before and I reach Kade in no time as I jump on his back. What surprises me though, is the bloodlust that takes over when I sink my teeth in his neck. I growl but it’s half between a moan and animal as his blood rushes into my mouth and I feel like I have been jolted by electricity, strengthening everything, and making everything heightened.
Kade gets me off him by dropping on his back, knocking the wind out of me before he jumps to his feet, his shoulder drenched in blood and a look of pure shock on his face when he catches sight of me.
Aria and her pack fight to the death, her pack dropping like flies around us, and I can hear Ryder fighting a group off to the side of us. Most of the rogues stop and watch Kade and I face off as we circle each other, anticipating each other’s first move.
We were completely outnumbered, this was going to end with all our deaths, but I will be making sure I take Kade to hell with me. He lunges and I almost laugh when I see it a second beforehand, like watching in slow motion as I watch his muscles bunch before he springs off his feet at me. Layla growling and I feel my skin rippling, every vein in my body pulsating with hunger and the need to kill.
My claws slipping from my fingers effortlessly and painlessly, but longer than ever before as I feel my body shift, only I remain on two legs, something that has never happened before. I could feel my face shifting as Layla took over and Kade stopped for a second and gasped.
He doesn’t stay frozen for long as we shake out our fur; I have to fight the urge to look at my hands as Layla stalks toward him. Kade looks hesitant but slips his facade back into place and I find myself suddenly surrounded by around twenty wolves. Amber screams in the distance, making my eyes dart to her as she is thrown. Her wolf skidding along the grass. Reid fought his own wolves and I could feel his Alpha aura washing over me, exuding the power behind his blows.
Aria fights with pure determination as she blocks wolves from killing her son and keeping them from the guest house, which I know is where the girls are as I can hear their sobs of fear within those four walls.
Kade has a triumphant grin on his face when I realise there are only around twenty of us and over a hundred of them getting ready to jump into the fray, lined and ready to go like loyal soldiers.
“You didn’t think I would be as unprepared as last time, did you, Layla?”
I laugh and it sounds sadistic, my voice not my own, and that’s when I realise during the shift, we became one. That’s why I feel the power radiating out me so strongly but that’s not all I feel, it is the Lycan blood pulsing through me and the drive and hunger I feel, that’s when I realise, I am no longer a wolf but a hybrid, a wolf Hybrid different from Aria but also the same.
Kade takes a step back and I know it is because I can feel my eyes changing at the realisation, swirling into the pattern of gold and blue. Layla within me and her thoughts become mine as I feel us blend and mould into each other like a powerful muscle.
Kade steps back as four rogues jump me at once, and I feel their teeth sinking into me in different places. Moving, I threw them off only to be jumped again, giving me no rest as Kade paced along the circle watching with eager eyes at the monster he created and a monster I was, I kept tearing them apart anyway I could.
I could feel myself drawing strength from somewhere. As I kept fighting, I could see Aria growing tired and Reid as we all fought endlessly. When Kade suddenly stepped towards me as I threw off the rogue that bit into my side, his punch knocked me down and I watched as he shifted, fur sprouting along his arms as his fangs protruded, we fought, his kicks were harder than the rogues. His punches rained down on me as I tried to block and land my own, all while trying to stop the rogues from attacking me from behind. Amber I could see trying to make her way to me, that’s when I felt them.