Their forced luna

Chapter 97

Amanda

Despite the assurances from the others that they would handle it, Bo was not to be denied.

The wolf had fully shifted, or whatever you could call this sick analogy. The bones were blackened and

his red eyes rolled around his skull, darting back and forth between me and the sky. He took a step

forward a low menacing growl gurgling up from somewhere deep inside.

I forced my attention away from him, focusing instead on the monsters that had caused this. Really, did

they always have to target Bo? "Whatever you did to him, take it away, now," I ordered.

The spike-toothed one laughed and the others around him repeated the action. "Mother, you're thralled

by these creatures. Don't worry. We'll rip them apart and turn their bodies to the very dust around us.

We'll save you."

Save me?

I stared at Bo as he lunged at Ares. The other wolf was far too quick for the skeleton and when Bo

stumbled after his jump he cocked his head and slowly turned before pouncing at the waiting hounds.

The two darted across each others paths. Their twin flames flared to life and formed an even thicker

circle around me.

I watched the lines of the orange and red flames cross each other, the power of their combined heat

washing over my body and leaving it in a cold sweat.

No. It wasn't from them.

It was because I was about to do something I hadn't tried yet.

Just like in my training, IJ closed my eyes to the chaos of the battle. The hounds would keep Bo away,

for now, but if I didn't step in, they would hurt my mate. Their rage at his attack was something I could

feel through the bond. Even if I did save him, this was going to form a rift.

My wolf answered my call easily enough and the coldness of her magic embraced me. My eyes flew

open and a wave of chilled air erupted from me and over the battlefield. The flames from the hounds novelbin

didn't flicker, if anything, they fed on my attack and surged higher. The things that were supposedly my

children stopped cackling. They stared at me.

"Wait," whispered the one in the lead and his words were echoed up and down the line.

No. I was done waiting.

I reached through my bonds for the power. Bo's was like an inky blackness I couldn't penetrate, but

Zale and the hounds remained usable to me. My body screamed as I tied to each of the sources. Ares

growled at me when I reached for him, but I was past caring.

No longer would I allow others to decide my fate. Sabbi might have forced me on Zale and the others,

but it was where I chose to be from this point on. The ice burned as its power flooded through me.

Green flames surrounded my head like a halo and red and orange carpeted the ground I touched.

The wizards made a strangled cry and they rushed at me one after the other. Ares grabbed one from

the sky, breaking its neck in one bite and tossing the corpse at its fellows, but it didn't even slow them

down. Bo took the opportunity to launch himself at Ares flank. The large wolf noticed the attack and

whirled on the skeleton. His savage teeth sunk into what little flesh Bo had left and he whipped him

around the battlefield like a stuffed chew toy.

The hounds had froze upon my cast but they too were involved in the action. Their flames continued to

try to guard me while they teamed up against the leader of the wizards and jumped at his face.

A multitude of Zale's fire rose into the sky around us. The little balls zipped around us, in and out and

around each of the combatants. Then a set of six of them surrounded the leader and they all crossed

paths, flying through his body. The man opened his mouth, no longer laughing, the fire ate at him.

Yet, I felt nothing. Were they truly related to me? But Rigar's methods were cruel and unnatural. I felt a

kinship to Clara, but to these creatures I could only harbor hatred.

A wave fire rolled over the other wizards, it was like glass was being glided up and down the insides of

my arms but I pushed past the pain. There would be time for recovery later. This? Was revenge.

I pushed harder, Raul's red flames lapped at the wizards and they fell out of the sky, hitting the ground

hard. The hounds wasted no time, they tore the throats out of the opponents.

"Bitch!"

The voice roared through my head and the pain it brought was blinding. I'd sapped away at Raul's

protection to gather all the power I could to get revenge for Bo. I'd fry everyone of these creatures until

I had him back.

I grit my teeth and dug deeper inside of myself. Sheets of flame and ice flowed over my enemies, and

even my allies were hard pressed to dodge.

I opened my mouth in an endless scream as the pain threatened to overwhelm me.

Ares howled then jumped through the hounds' flame, knocking me to the ground and placing a heavy

paw on my chest, pinning me to the ground.

I stared up at him, waiting for his eyes to turn blood red and for him to claw his way out of his flesh, but

he remained sane.

Bo leapt through the flames, hit monstorous teach latched around Ares' scruff and the skeleton

whipped his head to the side, flinging the bigger wolf out of the arena.

The flames that were protecting me turned black and rose high into the sky, cutting off and support I

had from outside the circle.

Rigar's laughter mocked me and I reached for more power from my mates.

Power that was no longer there.

I was alone with the transformed Bo and had just ran out of anything I had inside me to stop him.