Faster than they could react, I grasped one of the knives behind my back and threw it at Rosalie, impaling her in the stomach so hard from the close proximity that she flew back into the wall. She would recover soon, like Asher would, so we only had a minute, tops, before her magic would become something to reckon with.
Nathan went to shoot Rose with the drug, but she kneed him in the torso and grabbed his head, bringing it down to the table with a loud thud. Robert wrapped his arms around my neck, and with his positioning, I could tell he was planning to snap it.
I changed into a black mamba and fell to the floor by his legs. He tried to stomp on me, but I was faster. One strike to his leg, and he stumbled to his chair. The venom in my fangs would most likely kill him, and I had no regrets about that. Not after everything I’d heard tonight, and not after he’d turned my city against me.
Nathan recovered himself and shoved Rose to the floor with his strength. She grunted in pain but otherwise seemed okay.
“Maybe I was wrong about your spirit. You’re a fucking demon who needs to be put down like a rabid animal.” Nathan cursed and came at me with a sharp knife.
I lunged for him, and he moved out of the way at the last minute.
My body started to change without my say-so, and then I was there, a bear staring down the man who murdered my parents.
His eyes were wide, but he came at me with the knife again. My powerful paws smacked his arm, and the knife clattered to the ground.
He fucked up, and he knew it. He shouldn’t have rambled on, instead of killing me as soon as I walked in the door.
A very sharp pain cut into my side, making me roar so hard the house shook.
I looked down to see Rosalie had stabbed me with the knife that had been in her stomach. She used her magic to lift Nathan’s abandoned knife and sent it flying at my throat. Not tonight, bitch. I shifted to a panther and went straight for her jugular.
Her magic flowed out with her blood, and the knife clattered against the wall behind me.
“He’s on the run. I’ll get Sarah out of here.” Rose started to rise and move toward a very pale Sarah.
“Take my car. I’ll meet you back at HQ. Keys are in the ignition,” I said in human form then ran for the door Nathan had just run through. I leaped into the air and changed into a wolf. Unlike that night long ago when I was the prey, running for my life, I was the wolf on the hunt now.
