Chapter 54

Maddie looked down at the crumpled remains of their leader, and she gave an eye signal to the wolves around, and they shifted almost immediately and rounded up all the men, holding a knife to their throats.

Maddie shifted to her powerful lean frame, not at all ashamed of her skin, but the men turned bright red at her, and they slowly peeled her eyes away from her body.

Maddie cleared her throat, and she tucked her arms inside herself, standing taller and prouder as she looked at the men. “As you can see, your leader is dead, even though he put up a good fight.” And just for effect, Maddie kicked his body, satisfied when it moved a few feet.

He had long shifted into a human after he kicked the bucket, and if they weren’t enemies, she would have admitted that he was a fine man.

“You can either turn yourselves in and we will not harm you, or you could continue to prove difficult, and we will not hesitate to cut down on every one of you. Your choice.”

The men all looked at one another; th