Page 39 of Damon
We follow the young wolf through the woods. We can’t catch up to her, and she is not even running full speed. What the hell is going on? Then we stop right at the edge of our property. The first thing I notice is the fence is broken, and then I see Ken.
Ken.
Elizabeth presses against my side; she knows who he is.
The girl changes back. She struts up to Ken and wraps her arm around his back. I change back too, sickened at what I am seeing. Ken laughs. “Well, if it isn’t my long-lost mate. Not as pretty as you used to be, sadly, that’s what happens when you have kids.”
Elizabeth changes back to her human form and grabs my hand.
“Now it’s time to stop playing games and come with me,” Ken says, running his hand through the girl’s hair. “This is my sister, and she needs us to take care of her.”
“Ken, I have a mate. The thoughts that are in your head are not real. We are not real. I have two kids and I am an alpha’s mate.”
He puts his hands to his ears. “STOP! STOP! You are mine!” he screams, and birds take off around us at the sudden loud noise.
“Ken, just let me live my life. I can’t be your mate. It would kill me. Your mate died.” I soften my voice at the last part. I can’t imagine losing my mate.
“No.” He laughs out loud and looks at me, grinning. “I killed her. She was not you.”
He is literally psycho. Elizabeth looks at me in pure horror. A man who kills his mate has no shred of humanity. “Run,” I whisper to Elizabeth, and we both change back into our shifter forms and flee. I make sure that she is in front of me. I don’t want her to get hurt because of me.
I hear him howl behind me.
I close my eyes and run faster; then I look back. His mouth clamps down on my back leg.
I fall to the ground. Then I change back into my human form and grab his mouth, trying to pry it open. He shakes his head from head side to side, breaking my leg. I scream. Ken drags me back across the grass. I kick at his nose, and my hair is getting stuck in branches and other sharp things on the ground. “Let me go!” I scream. I manage to sit up, and I punch him hard in the nose. Elizabeth comes out of nowhere and bites his neck.
He lets me go, and I change back into my wolf and grab his neck. I look at her from the corner of my eye. I nod and we grab him and hurl him away from us. His head smacks against the side of a tree, knocking him unconscious.
We don’t let him go; both of us drag him by his neck. Hate fills my gut. How dare he try to do this? What gives him the right?
He has brainwashed this thirteen-year-old girl—his own sister—and her life is destroyed. She will never be trusted here. I wouldn’t trust her living among us, especially with kids running around. She tried to attack me in front of everyone,and she led me into a trap. She will be cast out and sent to another pack.
I know she is following Elizabeth and me as we drag Ken, in his wolf form, into the field in the middle of our property. I am ignoring the pain in my leg and my paw and the cut across my back. I bet there are sticks under my skin.
Damon runs out of the house; he looks at us in horror. Elizabeth and I drop Ken on the ground, and I change back into my human form. My leg gives out and I fall to the ground.
“Moon,” Damon whispers.
“Jackson take him, you know where.” Damon doesn’t even look around. He picks me up, cuddling me to his chest, takes me inside the house, and sets me down on a chair. “Baby, what the fuck happened?” he whispers, his voice cracking with emotion.
“The girl that attacked me last night came at me again, but from behind. She got away and ran into the woods, where Ken was waiting for me. He is crazy, crazier than usual, and he thinks that I am his mate. He admitted to killing his mate.” I stop, breathing deeply, and lay my head on his warm chest. I need to feel his protection. I knew I would fight tooth and nail to get away, but the fear is still there. Damon rubs my back. “We ran off and he grabbed my foot. I know it’s in bad shape. Then he dragged me through the woods, and Elizabeth attacked him. I joined in until he was knocked out.”
“I am so fucking sorry, Moon, I was not around.”
I shake my head. “This is not your fault, you were dealing with the shifters and explaining the rules.”
He closes his eyes. “You getting hurt and fighting for your life goes against every part of my being.”
I put my hands on his face. “I know, love, but don’t beat yourself up over this. The important part is it’s over.”
He looks at me. “Yes, it will be.” He runs his hands down my legs, stopping at my feet. “Fuck, Moon, this looks bad.” He touches the tips of my toes and I wince. “I will tell Elizabeth to come and check you out. I need to take care of this once and for all.”
“Okay, baby, be safe.”
He kisses me on the lips, and he takes a shirt off the back of the couch and pulls it down over my head. I use the blanket to cover my bottom half. I need to clean all of these wounds. He walks out the door, furious.
A minute later the door opens, and in comes Brantley with his stroller, followed by Hope and Elizabeth. Hope looks at my foot. “Ouchie.” Her bottom lip trembles with tears.
