I gave a clipped nod. Finn wasn’t referring to the shifters racing towards us from every direction. If anything, we’d have loved for them to be further away.
No, Finn was talking about the demons currently flying here as fast as they could, carrying Danny and several other supes with them. We’d put out an SOS when it became evident that the situation was beyond anything we could contain.
We knew Danny would come. As our former alpha, that was a given. Finn had hoped he’d bring others too, but none of us had expected all of them to come.
That’s right. Flying our way were Danny, the four sons of Lucifer, the former Grim Reaper, a once-upon-a-time member of the Seraphim, two mages, and two vampires.
It was a fucking shame they were going to arrive too late. At least we could die knowing our immortality would be avenged.
Danny and the others would destroy them all.
I hadn’t even protested about demons being the ones to come to our aid. Right now, our standing in the community wasn’t as important as surviving was.
Besides, it wasn’t likehe’dbe among them. To be completely honest, I wouldn’t even give a shit if he was.
I’d accept whatever help might save us.
Even from him.
“We can hold the line,” Finn said confidently. “Wewillhold the line.”
More howls rang out, from myself and the inner circle too. It didn’t matter that we knew better. We weren’t going to let our warriors go into this believing we were going to fail.
We might be going down, but we’d take as many of them with us as possible before we did.
The final marker pinged and I rolled my shoulders. As enforcer, I’d be the final one to shift, using my human voice to shout orders. To plan our attack as it happened.
As I should’ve done beforehand. Maybe then we wouldn’t be about to witness our own demise.
“First line ready,” I barked. At my words, Finn and Logan shifted. There were no final goodbyes. No words of love or wishes for what might’ve been. We were soldiers, at the end of the day.
Soldiers who knew we’d failed to do the one thing we’d vowed to do.
Protect our clan.
We’d failed, and now we were about to pay the ultimate sacrifice.
I could hear them now, countless padding footsteps crashing through the forest.
“Hold steady,” I barked at a wolf who looked like he was going to break formation. “Steady!”
He fell into line. I couldn’t blame him. This was the hardest part. To fight your instincts as death careened towards you.
I gripped my sword tighter. I might not be shifting just yet, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t going to be fighting.
Shapes appeared between the trees. Jaguars and wolves fighting together. Something that had never happened before.
I wondered if it’d ever happen again. I couldn’t see how these two clans would split our land, but that wasn’t really my problem.
I wouldn’t be here to see it.
The first few broke through the tree line. Wolves all around me braced, waiting for my order.
But I didn’t get a chance to give it.
Light filled the meadow along with an almightycrack. Several beings appeared as the bolts of lightning cleared, massive white wings peeking over their shoulders.
“Hold,” I bellowed, recognising Micah and Benji. In the back of my mind, I wondered how the fuck they even knew we were in trouble. Logan had reached out to them at the same time Finn had called Danny, but no one had answered. “Hold, McCarthy,hold!”
