“Am I not? Because I chose a different path than the pathetic one that was so humbly laid out by Fate?” the sister asked in a sarcastic voice.
“You let evil consume you, Meeny. You killed Teeny, your mate, and countless others. For what? To be turned into a twisted, vile version of yourself,” Tiny spoke with hatred.
“My mate loves me no matter what,” Meeny taunted Tiny with amusement in her evil eyes. “Kenzoooo.” The way Meeny called our name sent chills up our spine. Her menacing gaze settled on us. “Are you not going to speak to your fellow council members? Mateo, Darius, and Naheem. They all decided to come together to defeat you and claim the title as the Alpha of the Bear shifters. Then we will have the strength of the bears on our side.” Meeny smiled, showing off her decaying and rotten teeth.
We were in shock at finding out that mess of a being was Mateo and the others, but it didn’t scare us. Together or separate, we’d still fuck them up. “We’re the only True Alphaof the Bears,” we confidently said while staring her right in the eyes.
“Is that a challenge?” Meeny asked deviously. “Mateo, did you hear him challenge you? Are you going to stand for that?”
The amalgamation of the council let out another roar, then took off in a sprint toward us. Surprisingly, he could run faster than we expected. With Bellamy on our back still, we dodged their attack by leaping in the air and landing on a tree branch.
“Stay here,” we told Bellamy before leaping from the tree.
“Looking for us, bitch?” we asked while walking from behind the council amalgamation, who was looking around feverishly, trying to find us.
In a clumsy fashion, they turned around, looking at us. He roared again, only to be cut off by our own loud roar. As we charged their big asses headfirst, we began to shift, letting my bear take full control. I was no fool. My human couldn’t take them on alone. I felt the hairs taking over my body and my features changing into my bear’s. Once we were fully shifted, we smashed into their body, knocking us back into a tree in the distance. We could hear Meeny screaming “attack,” but there wasn’t much we could do besides kill this big bitch. Picking us up, they threw us off them. Being quick on our feet, we landed on them and used this moment to check on Bellamy.
“Are you okay?”we asked, mindspeaking with Bellamy.
“I am.”
“Call us if you need us,”we mindspoke with Bellamy, wanting her to know if she needed us, we’d be there.
“I will. I feel so helpless watching all of you fight while I hide in a tree. I want to help,”Bellamy replied seconds later, sounding defeated.
“Staying in the tree and staying safe is helping. Don’t move, Bellamy,”we growled while staring at the council members whowere trying to catch their breath. It took Bellamy a few minutes to reply.
“Okay,”she sadly replied to our satisfaction.
Now that we knew our mate was safe, we focused back on our fight. Growling, we bared our canines before charging back at the council amalgamation. Catching it off guard, we bit a huge chunk from its partially fur-covered chest. He violently shook from side to side, trying to get us loose. A vile taste seeped into our mouth, causing us to let go. We flew into a tree a few feet from the council amalgamation, disgusted as we spit out the gunk in our mouths.
What the fuck?
Staring in disbelief, we watched black sludge-like gunk instead of red blood pour out his wound. They let out a loud wailing sound of pain, and then their eyes started glowing red. They turned toward us, baring their mangled teeth at us. Then it charged at us in a clumsy manner like it was just learning to walk. Easily, we side-stepped their charge before slashing its back, and more of the black gunk came spewing out their back. They dropped to their knees, roaring in pain with their arms wiggling from side to side.
Figuring now was the best time to go in for the kill, we leapt from our position behind them, going in to swipe our claws across their neck. To our surprise, they ducked down at the last second, sending us crashing into the ground. Before we had a chance to get up, they were on top of us, pinning us to the ground. While growling in our face, they tried to tear into our neck, but we latched onto their muzzle, tearing it off. Black gunk leaked onto our face. In disgust, we used our claws to slash them across their face, and then we knocked them off us.
Not wasting any time, we stalked back over to their limp body sprawled against a tree. Taking our paw, we slammed into their face, crushing their head on the tree. Their head exploded,sending the black gunk flying everywhere and covering our face to our annoyance, but at least we’d killed them.
We were shaking our head to get as much of the gunk off of us as possible when we heard a scream that sent chills down our spine. It was Bellamy. Immediately, we took off in the direction of where we’d left her while praying Fate protected our mate.
Chapter Twenty-Three
BELLAMY ROSE
Thirty Minutes Earlier
I felthelpless while watching as Tiny, Halo and Cree fought off the hordes of shifters coming at them. I wanted to do something other than sit in this damn tree like a damsel in distress.
“Let me out.”My wolf sounded louder than she normally did. It was like she was sitting right next to me yelling in my ear.
“How?”I desperately asked her.
“You know how.”
“No, I don’t! Tell me how!”I screamed in frustration. Everyone kept telling me I would remember everything when the time was right. Now felt like the right time, but I was no closer to remembering anything than I was yesterday.
You would have thought my wolf could just take over like she did that day with Kenzo. Letting her out sounded crazy. How the fuck did I let something out that I’d never seen before? Not only that, but my fucking mate was fighting a damn huge-ass monster. I didn’t know how much help I would have been, but I at least wanted to try. I wanted more than anything to keep the people I loved and cared about safe.
