The hairs raised on my arms and a sense of impending doom took over me.
“There’s more.” I barely got the words out before the windows crashed inward and everything happened so quickly I could barely process it.
Sawyer stepped over the vampire’s headless withering body to tuck himself into my leg and Eugene started to shift, bones cracking and his form bulking out in record speed. Six vampires had just broken through the windows of Sawyer’s living room, and there was a familiar whirring sound outside, making its way over to us.
Helicopter.
This wasn’t some little mission to fuck with the alpha’s son, this was a carefully planned operation.
The entire thirty seconds I processed this felt like two hours, like time had slowed and I was out of my body. It took me a moment to realize, Iwasout of body. A white, ghostly wolf formcrawledout of my body, leaving my clothes unmarred. Pain ripped across my skin as my wolf left me, and then she solidified, no longer spectral as she stood next to Sawyer and growled at the oncoming horde.
What the fuck? This time wasn’t like last time, I hadn’t even gone furry, she’d just … detached … from me and solidified like a ghost coming back to life.
Eugene’s wolf had shifted as well and he was insanely huge, two times the size of mine and bigger than Sawyer’s by a long shot, but he was frozen, staring at me as he’d just witnessed my freak of nature.
“It’s her! She’s the one!” a female vampire wearing black army fatigues hissed from the living room.
The other vampires had come in to weaken or distract, or maybe to confirm something.
Me.To confirm it was me that they wanted for whatever reason.
These vampires were here to kill. They held sleek black guns that I just knew were full of silver bullets. Kill me? Kill Sawyer and take me? I didn’t want to know the answer to that question.
Sawyer’s wolf looked mine in the eyes and I felt a pressure in my skull, alpha power pressed in on me like a blanket.
‘Run. Get help,’his voice projected into my mind and my eyes widened.
I knew that the alpha had powers the other wolves didn’t; it was in their bloodline, like a magic none of us had, but I didn’t know the extent of those powers. I was scared to leave him, scared that if I did he might die and I’d never get that first date. I shook my head and my wolf tipped her head back and let loose with a long, haunting howl. Eugene and Sawyer joined in, until our howls became deafening.
Hopefully, one of the guards on campus heard that and would come to investigate, because we were out of time. Two of the vampires raised their guns, aiming them at Eugene and Sawyer, and I didn’t know what I was thinking, but I burst forward to stand in the line of fire.
Simultaneously, my wolf and my human form lurched forward, throwing ourselves in front of the boys and in front of two oncoming bullets. Time was weird. I could see the bullets flying through the air in slow motion like I was in an action movie. It took me a second to realize time hadn’t slowed, but I’d sped up.
I was fast,vampire fast.
Thrusting my hands out, I caught the bullets as they tore through the flesh in my palms. Sharp burning pain sliced through my palms as the bullets exited the back of my hands and landed on the floor. A high-pitched scream of agony ripped from my throat.
My wolf was already taking one of the vampires down, while the other vampire stared at me in shock.
“She moved like us,” the male bloodsucker said stupidly.
“Get her before she grows too strong!” the female vampire snapped, and they all advanced in unison. I was experiencing my wolf tearing into the vampire closest to me while also staring down at the two holes in my hands. It’s like wherever I willed my attention to go, it went, but each body could think and act independently of the other. The holes seeped crimson, blending in with the red color of my pretty dress as I fought the very strong urge to have a mental breakdown.
What the fuck was happening? Why couldn’t I just be eating pizza or making out right now?
Something bumped into my leg and I yelped, only to find it was Sawyer’s dark gray wolf. He pushed me behind him as he and Eugene curled their lips back and growled at the vampires before us.
I was staring at my hands in fascination, the holes seemed to be getting smaller, while simultaneously feeling my wolf kill the vampire. I could see his screaming face, taste his putrid blood, but I was also just standing here staring at my hands.
Talk about mental problems—was I losing my mind? Was this really happening?
In unison, Eugene and Sawyer leapt, taking two vampires down to the ground each, leaving only the female. She took one look at my wolf, standing on the dead body of her friend, and hissed, retreating out the broken back window and into the night.
Helicopter blades whirred, and then only the sound of Eugene and Sawyer tearing into the flesh of the undead remained.
Howls rose into the night and Sawyer froze, looking at my wolf.
‘Shift back. Now.’
