‘You have more than just combat skills. You have magic. USE IT. Stop being useless!’Bitch yells at me.
What the fuck? Useless? Anger swells within me. Did the PMS voice just accuse me of being incompetent?
I push with all of my might and kick back with my right foot to dislodge the disfigured razor pussy. As she stumbles back, I throw out my hands, palms out, and scream, releasing my PMS needles. It’s not enough to kill her, but she rears back and yowls in pain as I put my glaives away and flank her.
‘Ruin her,’Bitch urges.‘Make it so she can’t go after our mate ever again.’
This female obviously doesn’t care about boundaries, just like Axton. I know it’s not just a shifter thing; they can be honorable and even sweet if they want to, so why does this bitch feel like she’s owedmymate? Would she do this again to someone else? I’m sure she would, so yeah… I’m on the same page with Bitch. I don’t even question it; she needs to be spayed.
I need to secure my mating mark with Knox and Slayer. I obviously didn’t get that far in my classes about mate marks, but at least from all the paranormal books I’ve read, they talked about both shifters marking each other. Then again, those were fiction books… but I’m also in a damn realm where thosefiction charactersare fuckingreal.
‘Get your head in the game, woman!’Bitch yells, pulling my attention back as one of the deadly tentacles whips out to impale me, but I spin into the purple netherwraith. Instead of being impaled with her hooks, it’s her vine-like stalk coming out of her shoulder instead.
I hold on for dear life as she raises her vines, and slide down as her snake from Hell tentacle jerks back and forth until I land on her back with a thump.
“Oomph.” On instinct, I grab ahold of the extra skin around her neck and quickly activate one of my glaives, slicing a motion across the top of her head, but only cutting through her tipped yellow glowing ears.
Screams of pain shatter the night as she thrashes underneath me and sends me crashing into the grass below. Rolling onto mybelly, I slow my breathing and lift onto all fours before freezing in place.
A few voices and shouts can be heard in the direction of the camp, and I swear, if this woman just woke up my family, I’m really going to be pissed.
‘Rezzi-bear, where are you? Who do I need to kill? Why aren’t you naked and cuddling with me?’Lynx asks, only a little worried about me.
‘I’m fine, just thought I would deal with a psycho leather-faced kitty that wanted one of my men. So, I’m teaching her a lesson she won’t forget,’I explain as another frustrating scream rings out while tentacles swipe through the grass, raking for my body.
‘You bitch,’Knox’s psycho mate wannabe screams.‘Do you know what you’ve just done?’
I don’t have to see her to know that she’s overreacting; it’s not like I scalped her, even though I easily could have. I bet she only has a little blood trickling down her face from where I sliced through her yellow-tipped ears.
‘Oh, so the typical night then?’Lynx chuckles.
‘Yep. Just passing the time,’I concur.
‘Well, I guess we’ll pass it with you because we’re joining the party,’he explains as I hear them all heading our way. They aren’t subtle at all.
‘Figured that.’I roll my eyes.
‘I will rip the skin from your body and use it to floss after feasting on your carcass,’she promises as she stalks past me.
I watch as she prowls by, and when I see her yellow-tipped tail come into view, I pounce, stumbling slightly as I slice off the tip of her tail.
She turns and swipes her paw at me along with a tentacle, but before it reaches me, there are black and white tentacles holding back her death appendages.
‘Pepper, Enough,’Devinyx demands, her voice thunderous.
“Pepper? Her attitude is more like Puddle. A puddle of mud. Can we change her name to that?” Moni asks, holding Chester’s hand as they stand off to the side in the field at a safe distance.
Pepper turns and hisses at Moni, but Devinyx lets out a clinking noise from her throat that has Pepper cowering, lowering her belly to the grass.
What the hell is going on? I back up and bump into a hard chest. Firm arms circle my waist, and a wave of love and calm filters down my link, which makes me immediately relax.
Knox.
‘You’ve secured our bond and completely rendered Pepper incapable of ever picking a mate,’Slayer explains.
“What?” I shriek and pull away from Knox.
Glancing at the wounded netherwraith, I take in her injuries. Blood trickles from her ears and tail, and where they once glowed yellow in the night, now they no longer glow nor will they ever.Didn’t Slayer tell me that the ears and tail allowed them to use their pheromones to lure mates to them or something like that?
