“Liam!” he yelled as he jumped off Aidan and soared towardme.
Liam?
Liamhad savedme?
“Liam!”
He lay still, as still as Aidan and thehound.
A new wave of terror beat at the back of mythroat.
Lucas rolled Liam’s large lupine form over and pressed a hand against his flank. When Lucas drew his fingers away, his palm was dyed a deep red. “CallMatt!”
Sick chills pulsated throughme.
“Ness! Fucking call him!” Lucashollered.
Hands shaking, I dug through my bag for my phone. I managed to grasp it, but it slipped out of my slick fingers and tumbled on thestones.
Lucas, who’d pressed his hand back against the wound in Liam’s side, growled at me. “Are you waiting for him todie?”
“N-No.” I seized my phone again. Entered the wrong code. Twice. The third time I managed to unlock it. I began scrolling through my contacts when I remembered I didn’t have Matt’s phone number. “I d-don’t haveit.”
Lucas barked the number atme.
Fingertips tap-tapping against the screen, it took me several attempts to get the number enteredright.
Matt’s voice came on before I could even speak. “Who’sthis?”
I was trying to gather my voice, but it kept jamming behind my jumpy breaths. “M-M-Matt…”
“Ness?”
I noddedstupidly.
Matt couldn’t hear menod.
Lucas growled and tore the phone from my inept fingers. While he spoke, I touched Liam’s neck. I felt a soft flutter nip myfingertips.
I smoothed the fur on his cheek. “He-He’salive.”
“Barely,” Lucas muttered. “The fucker probably used a silver bullet.” He twisted to look at Aidan, who hadn’tmoved.
His chest still rose and fell, but he was outcold.
“If Liam dies, I’m going to shred Aidan Michaels’s body with my claws, then tear his carotid out with my fangs, and then I’ll watch him bleed the fuckout.”
It was petty, but the pack’s double-standardsstung.
“Fuck. I can’t staunch the fuckingblood.”
“Here.” I pulled my tank top off, then balled it up and handed it toLucas.
He wadded it against thehole.
“Is there an exitwound?”
Lucas blinked at me, and then, clutching my t-shirt, he lifted his friend’s leg and felt blindly for a puckered hole. “I can’t goddamn seeanything!”
