Chapter 67


    The iming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)


    Jara


    While I ripped the throat out of the one, the wolf Inded on begins bucking, trying to throw me off. He


    swings around, giving me a chance to take a swipe at another wolf. This time, I sh across his face,


    blinding him in one eye.


    His howl of pain echoes in the forest. Luke begins to fight the remaining three that are still attacking


    him. As the wolf I’m riding swings around again, I’m able to sh the hind leg of one of the wolves


    attacking Luke, causing him to turn around to me.


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    His howl of victory goes up as he leaps at me. I duck against the wolf I’m riding, and he leaps over top


    of both of us. I turn, shing at him again. This time, I catch his throat. He begins coughing up blood,


    but I don’t have a chance to see if it will kill him. The wolf I’m riding bucks and I go flying over his head.


    He’s on top of me in an instant, his teeth snapping against my neck.


    “You can’t im me in your wolf form, a*s*shole.” I say and m the ws on my right hand into his


    stomach, ripping out his insides. They spill over my legs, covering me in his blood. I use my left hand to


    push him off me, just as another wolf jumps at me.


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    Alpha Luke, bloodied and withrge gaping sh marks across his entire body, grabs him by the neck


    in mid-air, snapping his neck in two before dropping him to the ground.


    He looks at me and I’m caught. There’s nowhere for me to go. But instead of iming me, Luke


    copses to his knees before sitting down hard.


    “Luke? Are you okay?” I don’t want to be caught, but I also want to make sure he’s okay. I did jump


    down here to make sure he didn’t die.


    “You’re bleeding.” He says to me, and his voice is much too soft. He nods at my shoulder, and I realize


    that the wolf that was snapping his teeth at me actually did bite my shoulder. In the throes of the


    fighting, I hadn’t felt it.


    I turn and look back at him. “So are you.”


    I squat down in front of him. He scoots back, putting his back against arge fallen tree limb, propping


    himself up while he waits for his body to start healing.


    “Why didn’t they stop?” I ask him, looking at the dead who are now in various stages of shifting back


    into their human form.


    “iming haze. By tomorrow night, all of us will be in the haze. It will only make things more dangerous


    for you, Jara.” He nods up at the limb I slept onst night. “Your hiding spot is a good one. You should


    keep that up.”


    I can’t help but smile at that. “And of course, that way, you’ll be the only one that knows where I’m


    hiding?” He looks at me a moment, a small smile on his face. “Would that be so bad? If I was the one


    to im you?”


    I move to him. I can see the pain on his face. His injuries are deep and will take some time to heal.


    He’s not iming me in his current condition. He’d be no match for me, and we both know it.


    “No, Luke. I’d be proud to stand by your side as your Luna.” I say, but I can’t quite look him in the eye.


    “But?” He asks.


    I look at him, wanting to bepletely honest. “But my heart belongs to another.”


    He nods. “Mason.” He doesn’t need me to confirm it. “I see you’re wearing his shirt. How did that


    happen if he hasn’t imed you yet.”


    “Typhon and his Beta caught me yesterday. I shifted, shredding my clothes trying to get away. He and


    Elijah helped me escape. He somehow knew where to find me, and he left his shirt for me, after


    washing it out.” I look down. “Which I’ll have to do again.”


    He looks at me a long moment. I can see his wounds, the shallower gashes, are already starting to


    heal. At that moment, my stomach makes a loud grumbling sound.


    He reaches into his pocket and pull out some strips of meat. “Here.” He hands me the meat and I can’t


    help but moan as I devour it.


    “Thank you.” I say as the meat sates my aching stomach for the moment.


    “Mason isn’t the only one that can take care of you.” He says, still looking at me with sadness in his


    eyes. “As much as I would love to have you as my Luna, Jara, I wouldn’t always want to wonder if I


    measured up to a man like Mason in your mind. He’s a good man and a good Alpha. But you know that


    won’t matter once the haze kicks in. More than half of the wolves in here are in the iming haze


    already. The rest of us will be in it by tomorrow night. I can let you walk away right now because I know


    you want to be imed by another, but once the haze takes me, it won’t be that way. You understand?”


    I nod. “Yes.” I say, and I do.


    The haze is the worst part of the iming.


    “Good, now get out of here before I heal and decide to im you anyway.”


    I can’t help but chuckle.


    Luke is a good man and will make a good Alpha too. “If it is you, Luke, I won’t be disappointed.’’ I tell


    him before standing.


    We hear the sounds of crashing at the same time. “Go!” He mouths to me.


    “Will you be okay?” I as quietly, looking behind me at where the sounds areing from.


    “Yes, they areing to see if you were imed. Go, quickly!” again, I’m running as if my life depends


    on it.


    I hear more crashing in front of me and I divert to the left. My legs are sticky from the blood covering


    them. I realize I’m leaving a trail of blood all over the forest undergrowth.


    When I hear more crashing nearby, I find one of the hiding spots and dive into it. It’s not ideal, but it’s


    small enough that only an omega could probably fit in the opening.


    I watch from my hole as I see men and wolvese rushing through. Some of them, what I a*s*sume


    are ranked members, stop and begin sniffing the air and then the nts around me. Between Masons


    shirt and the wolf s blood, they don’t seem to catch my scent and move on quickly.


    I stay like this for most of the rest of the day. I feel somewhat safe in this hiding spot, especially since


    multiple wolves have sniffed around nearby and haven’t caught my scent.


    When I finally can’t take the scent of blood on me any longer, I climb out of my hole. It’s nearly dusk


    again, and I make my way to theke. Once again, I dip under the waterfall and wash off the battle of


    this morning.


    When I’m done, I carefully climb out, making my way toward the front where I was able to climb the tree


    and watch the entrance of the iming.


    I don’t want to sleep above the rotting corpses of the bodies I helped to kill earlier today. Tomorrow, I’ll


    have to find another tree, because I’ll be taking Luke’s advice.


    I’ll be staying in the trees as long as possible.