Chapter 120
-Dorothy-
The vampire’s next attack was directed at the Stonespoke pack, a smallmunity of shifters just
north of Befile territory. If the attack on Belile had simply been a diversion, then I didn’t want to consider
just how many vampires were waiting for us at Stonespoke
The shifters I had healed turned the battle for Belile back in our favor, and Ignatius and the others had
cleared out every vampire before morning I hadn’t been aware of it at the time, but the vampire 1 had
murdered was one of thest to fall.
After Ignatius had pulled me out of the burning house, he made preparations to send me back home.
But I had been adamant on not leaving the battle. It was Angie who eventually got him to relent,
pointing out that our victory wouldn’t have been possible were it not for my healing abilities.
Ignatius looked shell-shocked at the prospect of nearly losing me to a maring fire and a ravenous
vampire. He made me promise to stay close, and to run for the forest if the battle took a turn for the
worst
“I promise” had tried to smile, but couldn’t quite manage it.
There were too many thoughts swirling in my mind, too many questions. Had Ignatius discovered the
truth before I did? Did he know it was vampires that murdered my pack? Did the Bielke have something
to do with it!
I stared at the back of his head as we trekked through the forest, willing myself to give him the benefit
of the doubt. I wanted to believe that he wouldn’t hide this from me, not after everything we’d been
through. But still there was that gut-wrenching: ache in my chest
I dropped my eyes to the ground and kept walking
-Fae-
By the time we made it to Stonespoke we were already exhausted. The Belile battle had taken a toll on
the Bielke soldie and yet we had to keep fighting. There would be no giving up until every vampire was
chased from ournd or buried beneath in
I took one look at the scene before me, at the roaring fires and monsters emerging from the forest and
paused. Daybreak was still a few hours away, and I found myself longing for an escape from this stifling
battlefield.
Angie stopped beside me,cing her fingers with mine. “I’m here. I’ve always got your back.”
The battle was brutal and we lost track of nearly everyone in the choos, But through it all, Angie stayed
by my side. Together we saved dozens of fleeing shifters, all Stonespoke members who had been
caught usware by the vampire attack
As we fought, I caught a glimpse of a familiar figure among the writhing bodies, and my heart froze in
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my chest.
The vampire, the same one that had grappled with Angie and 1 during the secret gathering, was staring
straight at us, I stared into deep ck eyes, and followed his gaze. His attention was fixed on Angie,
and he wore the same hungry snarl that he had the first time we confronted him.
Shoving a bleeding vampire off of me, I reach over to grip Angie’s arm. That vamp, over there. He’s the
same one from
before
ANgie looked up at where I was pointing, her expression turning a grimace when he began to make his
way towards us cutting down everyone in his path.
I gripped Angie tighter, digging my ws into her skin. “You need to go. Now, I don’t know why, but he
wants you.”
No Angie resisted my tugging, kx king eyes with the approaching vampire. “We’ll take him down this
time. We have to
“Now is not the time to be stubborn!” I yelled, but I knew my words would do no good. When Angie set
her mind to
something, she couldn’t be convinced to sway H why I wanted to throttle her on asion
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her decision. It was one of the reasons I loved her as much as I did. It was abo
Angie smashed her gauntlets together, remnants of the iron armor we had used to battle the Tally, Most
of our soldiers these days chose to stick with their standard gear, knives and des that wouldn’t get
lost whether in wolf form or walking upright.
But Angie had taken a liking to the bulky, spiked gloves, and she wielded them with all the ferocity of a
caged tiger. I gripped. my twin des and bared my fangs, following my headstrong mate as she
moved to meet the approaching vampire.
The man came at us with full force, mming his b*dy into Angie and pinning her to the ground. Those
razor sharp teeth. shed as he tried to bite down on her neck, eyes shing with a wild hunger that
shook me to the core.
1 brought my des down on his hack, harpooning the man through the shoulders while Angie
punched upwards, smashing her wrecking-ball of a fist into his face.
The vampire roared and rolled away, on his feet again before either of us could blink. Unlike some of
the other vampires,. this one hasn’t felt the need to transform. He looked like a regr human being,
save for the evil insanity that glinted in his
eyes.
“Fight all you want little pets” His voice sounded unnatural on a battlefield, far too sophisticated toe
from the mouth of a man covered in his victims blood, “Soon Ill add both of you to my collection. How
would you like to be concubities of house Letha
“Not on my bucket list. I spot and poused mid-shin, halting the process halfway and snapping down on
the same hand that I Had bitten during ourst encounter.
The vampire roared in anger as the bones his hand broke a second time and Angie delivered another
nahless punch to his abdomen. With my work done. I stepped back to watch my mate rain blows down
on the vampire like a hailstorm
Angie punctuated every sicker punch with a curse word while she turnedl the man to a bloody pulp. If
the situation ha been so dire. I might have been waving pom poms, cheering on my mate like a
freshman at a football game.
But there was a moment of hesitation between blow then the vampin nan took his chaner, and kicked
out at Angie, sending her flying backwards into an old buggy. The windscreen shattered and the rm
went off, adding to the disjointe orchestra of batting bodies
In the blink of an eye, he was on me, jaws wide open to sink ho teeth into my flesh. I heard Angie’s
howl of rm, and 1 lifted my des to defend myself but the monster seemed to have sullenly lost
interest in me.
His eyes zed over and he stood still, head cocked like he was listening for something. In a
stepped away, arms hanging at his sides, and disappeared into the billowing smoke
Angie was at my side in an instant, shands of broken ss twinkling in her hair. “Are you alright?”
She looked me over, examining my neck for any teeth marks until I took her hands in my own and
folded them away, didn’t bite me. He just left.”
Angie squinted into the hazy fog, but the vampire was gone. She wiped sweat and blood from her
cheek, blowing out a breath as she puzzled over the vampire’s sudden exit
She leaned over, bncing her dirty palms on her knees and gave me a wry smile. “House Lethia,
huh?”
“He