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 ws, but there’s too many of them, and eventually I have to fight.


    I go low, mping my jaws around a leg and biting down until I feel bones breaking. I lunge at another


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    and bite its underbelly. But they’re circling and the next wave, I’m forced to defend more than attack


    because they areing at me three at a time.


    I bite and sh, kicking out and wing.


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


    and by sheer numbers, I’ll


    be ovee.


    I’m in survival mode, thinking of nothing except doing whatever it takes to stay alive.


    I hear a vicious growl, and another wolfes streaking out of the woods.


    At first, I think even more enemy wolves are attacking, but this new wolf I don’t recognize-huge, silver,


    with darker fur around his muzzle and ears-begins attacking the wolves who are trying to hurt me.


    He’s vicious and relentless, tearing through the other wolves at inhuman speed, and for the first time I


    think I might actually survive this.


    A wolf snaps at me, catching me on the shoulder and I can’t help but yelp.


    The silver wolf-face and chest now covered in dark crimson blood-lunges toward me and savages the


    wolf that had sun


    into me.


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


    outmatched, and turn tail, fleeing into the woods.


    Almost as soon as they’re gone, I shift back, panting, feeling nauseous at the blood spattered all over


    me.


    At how close I came to being killed on my own family’snda.


    In the distance, I can hear the howls of the Roberts and Rathborn wolves getting closer.


    They’ll be here within moments, but if not for the silver wolf, they would have been toote.


    I would have already been dead.


    A few secondster, the silver wolf shifts as well, and the man straightens, covered in even more blood


    than I am.


    He turns to face me, and my heart drops into my feet.


    I can’t believe it.


    “What are you doing here?”