Chapter-26-
Tieran and Cassandra surveyed the scene, growling in warning to anyone from Ulster’s n that if they
dared challenge either, they would die like their Alpha, gurgling on their life’s blood.
A scattering of yips and howls filtered through the moonlight as the battered remnants of Ulster’s n
melted into the forest, running for their lives.
Within minutes all that remained were the dead, injured, or exhausted n Barrachius. Victory was
bittersweet.
Tieran padded over to a fallen wolf and nudged therge body with his muzzle. A whine of sadness
followed. Cassandra felt Tieran’s pain as he checked the bodies littering the forest floor. Blood stained
the pine needle carpet and filled the air with the scent of death.
With an anguished howl, Tieran changed from beast to man until he stood before the scene smeared in
blood, both his own and others, and Cassandra followed suit.
“How many?” she asked quietly.
“Ten,” he answered, looking to therge wolves licking their wounds. “We must get them back to the
compound or else that number will increase.”
“Are they able to run?”
“Doubtful and it is too far to walk in our human form.” Tieran’s grim expression told of his worry for his
n mates. He would not leave them behind. Cassandra could see his dilemma and knew what she
had to do.
“I will go get help.”
“No, I will not chance that one of Ulster’s band will wait for this exact opportunity to retaliate for their
fallen Alpha. I will send someone else.”
“Who?” Cassandra asked, exasperated by Tieran’s stubbornness. “Besides, it’s my fault that they are
injured in the first ce. Let me do this. I want to help.”
“I will not risk your safety,” Tieran disagreed, dismissing her as he walked away to discuss the situation
with one of his n mates who wasn’t as badly injured as the others.
Cassandra’s temper spiked at being relegated to the helpless female role when she was clearly the
exact opposite. Cassandra growled low in her throat and Tieran’s head whipped around in surprise at
her open defiance.
“For your own safety, I would suggest you stop underestimating me,” Cassandra warned before
transforming back into her wolf form.
The pain was fleeting as she settled into her familiar animal skin before Tieran could stop her.
She bounded away from him and the clearing, easily putting distance between her and the others.
She followed the scent lodged in her nose of thepound and she went unerringingly along a
dizzying path, her padded feet eating up the miles as if they were mere yards.
She burst into thepound grounds and went straight for the sentries guarding the entrance. Her
chest heaved from the exertion but she managed to transform into her human form to gasp the words,
“We were attacked. Tieran needs help.”
She projected the image of the clearing into their brains and their startled eyes told her that she’d
seeded in not only freaking them out, but also ofmunicating the location of their fallen n
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Exhaustion from the run and the fight left her without the energy to exin further and simply limped,
naked, bruised and bloody into the house to go straight to her room to copse.
But immediate rest was not in the cards.
A woman that made her hackles rise and a growl pop from her chest, though she’d never seen the
woman before in her life, waid her on the way.
“You,” the woman breathed with sharp disappointment, the sound of that single wordced liberally with
hatred and dismay.
Her dark hair cascaded over her shoulders in a waterfall of beauty that would’ve made a supermodel
jealous and it certainly didn’t make Cassandra feel like a pageant queen but even as her dark eyes
glittered like jewels at midnight, her heart burned with jealous heat.
Cassandra sucked in a tight breath as understanding washed over her. “You weren’t supposed toe
back,” the woman said tightly in a low, private voice meant only for Cassandra to hear.
“Serra,” Cassandra said. “What are you doing here?”