Chapter One Hundred and One

HECTOR BAYES

If I hadn't been seconds from closing the space between where my best friend lay pinned under the grinning wolf, I would not have believed the monster could move that quickly.

It was uncanny, the teeth of my jaws snapping together as what looked to be thousands of the creatures swarmed in, falling over each other, some getting crushed in the angry stampede as they struggled to fit through the gates.

“Holy mother of God!” I heard Gordon murmur as he pulled up on a horse beside me, before shifting into the beige fur of his wolf and charging at the werewolves who had begun to fall from the top of the stone fence, slashing his way through the front lines before I called him back, away from those things.

They looked different, the wolves, hungry. But it was more than that. It was almost as though they had been reinforced, in a way that was even worse than what the Hybrids had been. Killing machines. They must have been climbing over each other to get to the top.

“Soldiers Asse