บททั้งหมดของ Panther: บทที่ 151 - บทที่ 160

My mind was absolutely blank as I ran up the stairs and through the wall ways of the mansion where Cleo was held.I wasn't thinking about the multiple lives I had just taken.I wasn't thinking about the aching in my fists, or the racing of my heart, or the pounding in my ears.I was hyper focused on reaching my mate.Ike and I were stopped in the hallway now, chests heaving, both looking for a way to the roof. I wasn't seeing a clear way up."Any ideas?" I hear Ike ask. I kiss my teeth and walk down to the end of the hallway, where there's an open window blowing the wispy curtains surrounding it around."A good enough one." I rip the curtains off once I reach the window and throw them to the floor. Sure enough, there was a good sized ledge on the outside, and when I leaned out and looked up, I could see the lip of the roof jutting out, just waiting to be swung up onto. I step out, my eyes drifting to the scene below for a moment.There are both men and women fighting, some in wolf or

Willow is dead. "Get the fuck off me!" I can feel Charlie's hands roughly pushing at my panther's body, but it doesn't stop the coppery taste flowing into my panther's mouth. My panther must have gone for the kill. I can hear his bones crunching as she squeezed her razor-sharp teeth against his windpipe. He spits up a mouthful of blood, then stops moving after a little bit of twitching. My panther drops him in disgust, and immediately turns her attention to our fallen friend.Willow. My panther approaches her body and pushes her so she can face the sky. Why did this happen? My panther lays her head on Willow's chest. Let me hold her, please. I can feel my panther retracting inside of me at my request.It was my turn to feel now. As soon as I'm a person again, I feel someone draping a shirt over my back. I flinch a little at the feel of fabric on my definitely battered body. I had never been hurt bad enough that my wounds as a panther appeared on my human body. Charlie must have r

Three months later..."Cleo! Are you training with us today?" I meet eyes with Thomas, who is standing in front of about fifty of our new guard members. They were all wearing shorts or leggings, standing in a line with their arms crossed over their chests, waiting for a command from one of their leaders."I'm actually looking for Nate." I call back to him across the field. The guards still trained in front of Ike and I's house, so every time I stepped off our porch one or more of them would approach me, asking me if I was training today or where I was going. It was nice to know they all wanted to learn from me, but I hadn't been doing much of anything lately to be honest, especially not fighting."I saw him headed that way a few minutes ago." I nod in thanks at Thomas, who watched me wearily as I walk off in the woods in the direction he had pointed. "Do you want someone to go with you?" He calls after me. I wave my hand dismissively, pulling the sweater I had been wearing a little ti

One of the biggest thing eating away at me, was Levi.I would dream of him, lying with his neck broken at the bottom of Charlie's mansion. We never actually found him, or any trace of him. Ike didn't say much about his being gone, just that he was most definitely alive, and most likely just wanted to be alone. I wished I could see him and say I was sorry. Even though I knew how selfish, petty, and insignificant that would be. I just wanted to make myself feel better for being the reason his mate and sister was murdered."Want down?" Nate asks when we finally reach the now much bigger clearing in the trees where all the houses lived. I nod, and slide off his back, moving to stand under his arm and tuck into his side instead. We make our way across the field, nodding to the guards still in front of our houses. They were doing pushups now, with Thomas walking across their backs. I shake my head, glancing up at Nate who is also watching them."He's really grown into his role, hasn't he?"

"Why aren't we allowed to know this?" I ask after a moment of Ike just staring at me as I focus on the ground.He tsks and shakes his head. "It's not really that you're not allowed I guess, Alpha's are just discouraged from telling their packs about The Circle. We meet them when we're brought in and told if we feel our packs need to know about their existence, we can tell them about it. But that telling them of our history means the risk of anger towards humans growing in shifters. Right now, I'd say both sides are wearier of each other more than anything, and that's better than full on hating each other. That, and they think if shifters know there's a higher spot to achieve than Alpha, they'll fight to get to it. They're basically trying to avoid conflict while still keeping their fingers in the packs." That kind of makes sense, I guess. "It's not like they're going to suddenly appear and slit our throats if we so much as mention The Circle, it's just, we as a species have to deal wi