All Chapters of His Rejected Mate (Game Of Wolves Book 3) : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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“You’re right,” I said. I needed to get my mind off this. I nodded back toward the cave. “I’m going to check on Leif. He woke up, but wasn’t feeling great. Eli was working on him when I left.”“You do that. I’ll see how Mika’s doing. I think he’s more upset than Zoe is right now.”Back inside, I found Leif sitting. He looked strained and upset, though not as bad as when I’d left him.“How’s it going?” I asked him.“Not good,” Leif said through gritted teeth. J.D. sat beside him, rubbing his back. “My head’s fucked up. Elianna—er, Eli—is helping, but it’s not enough.”“I’m trying not to put him to sleep,” Eli explained as she waved her hands over him. “I’d like him to be aware and able to help if there’s trouble.” She shook her head bitterly. “Whatever that fucking scientist did to make him feral is something I’ve never encountered before.”“How the hell did you end up on Bloodstone, anyway?” I blurted to her. It had always been too busy for me to ask questions, and Crew’s second-in-co
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Forgoing quiet for efficiency, Crew cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled, “We go! I broke you guys into groups earlier, so fall into your platoons now. Wyatt and Kira will command group one, I’ll take group two, and Eli and Mika will lead group three. This is it, people. It’s time.”Nervous and terrified murmurs ran through the crowd. Leif, who’d been standing off to the side with J.D. and Eli, flinched at the sound. I gasped as his face crumpled and his eyes became wild.“J.D.!” I shouted. “Get away from him.”The group went silent and turned in time to see Leif shift. He fell to all fours, snarling. J.D. stepped backward, falling over on his ass. Eli, seeing that J.D. was helpless, stepped between him and the now fully feral Leif.Leif lunged at her and snapped his teeth. Eli jerked back, just barely dodging Leif’s teeth. The group of survivors shouted and called out for help. The noise sent Leif into more of a frenzy. Thankfully, instead of jumping into the group, he turned
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“Go!” Eli shouted as the two groups fell into a skirmish in the distance.Mika and Eli led their team out, rushing the creatures from the back. Kira and I moved our own team up, waiting. From the bowels of the lab, a group of vampires erupted. They were not the decrepit half-starved things we’d been fighting in the jungle. No, these were lucid, well-fed, and well-prepared creatures of the night. They intercepted Mika and Eli before they could join Crew.“Crap,” I hissed. “Move. Everyone, let’s go.”Not waiting for an answer, I sprinted out, rushing toward the fight that was rapidly devolving into chaos. The sound of my team following gave me a small sense of relief, which was dashed when five feral shifters loped out of the entrance to join the fray. Three wolves, a bear, and a panther.The feral bear shifter slammed into Mika’s group, one massive paw lashing out. It got one of the male wiccans in the throat. Blood spurted from the wiccan’s neck as the bear shifter tossed him away, an
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“I’ll go,” I said, not hesitating. “We’ll take a small team. Splitting up may divide Simon’s forces and give us an advantage.”Crew nodded. “There must be a doorway out to the landing pad down this hallway. Hurry, that barricade spell won’t last long.”I’d not realized how tired and beaten-down the group was. All around me, heads hung, lungs heaved, cuts bled. They were exhausted, and from the looks of it, we’d lost a few people since the start of the fighting.“Any volunteers?” I asked.“I’m going,” Kira said, then jabbed a finger into my chest. “Don’t even try to stop me.”“Me too,” Abel said, wiping sweat off his forehead. “I owe this fucker some payback.”“I’ll go with you,” J.D. added.Two more Haveners volunteered. The rest would follow Crew deeper into the lab to find Simon and take him down once and for all.“On my six,” I said, heading farther down the hallway.My small team followed, Crew led the rest of our people to a T junction and departed in the opposite direction. Sure
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Crew gave a thumbs-up, but his team of survivors were already deep in the fight. The circular chamber at the center of the volcano erupted in the sounds of battle. Screams, howls, the crackle of magic, the agonized yells of the injured and dying—I’d never encountered anything like this. Even the battles in the halls leading here hadn’t been this chaotic. Simon had every member of his team here, trying their best to kill us.Simon was aiming a spell directly at Abel, who was fending off a vampire trying to attack Chelsey. In the fray, I had a single moment to see the wicked grin on Simon’s face as he cast his spell. It slammed into Abel, and the alpha’s face went slack. He turned and grabbed Chelsey, trying to choke her.What the fuck was going on?Crew saw Chelsey was in trouble and broke away from the main battle. I tried to join, but I was bogged down with a feral bear. Abel growled and snarled. Chelsey screamed, desperately trying to fight him off. Zoe sent a spell into the bear I
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Lucina moved her shadows like a conductor commanding an orchestra, her long, delicate fingers dancing through the air, sending shadow snakes to decapitate vampires and booming shadow waves to crush one of the two remaining helicopters. Then, she turned her eyes on Simon.He must have realized he’d overstepped and was in trouble, because he cast a spell on himself a moment before Lucina’s shadows caught him. The few vampires and ferals that remained alive toppled over as though every ounce of life had been sucked out of them. A faint, shimmery light flashed from their bodies back to Simon as they fell. A moment later, the fucker vanished, escaping death by less than a second.Around us, his forces lay dead at our feet. Glancing back, I saw Crew, obviously exhausted by the fight, being helped to his feet by Chelsey and Eli.Lucina pulled her shadows back to shroud her in darkness once again, then stepped forward, staring down at the spot where Simon had been a moment before.“Pity. I wa
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But if Lucina was telling the truth, it sounded like his imprisonment in her shadow prison would last longer than anything we could possibly do to him.“Fine,” Wyatt finally said. “If Kira agrees, then…ugh, fuck, I guess we’ll spare him.”I nodded. It was for the best. “We will. Unless he gives us no other choice.”Lucina bowed her head. “Understood. I will not ask you to sacrifice your lives to bring him to me.” A wall of flame sprang out of a doorway to our right, and everyone but Lucina flinched. “This place is not as safe as it once was. You’ll be fine here for a while, but I suggest departing as soon as you are able.”Without another word, she burst into a cloud of bats and fluttered out through the top of the volcano.J.D. was slumped on the ground, clutching his wound. His healing was slow-going, and the sheen of sweat on his face told me he was still in immense pain. All around, I noticed more and more people who’d been hurt in the fight. Several weren’t shifters, so they woul
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“Wyatt, now is not the time to play the tragic hero. Maybe we…Wyatt? Are you okay?”His brow had furrowed, jaw clenched, and he leaned out over the railing, squinting at the ocean. I focused on the horizon and spotted a small, black speck.“What is that?” I asked.Wyatt squinted some more. After a moment, his face went slack. “Son of a bitch. It’s another helicopter. A fucking big one.” Horror and defeat marred his handsome face as he looked at me. “Simon. He must have sent another one when he got to wherever he teleported to.”“Oh my gods,” I whispered. “We can’t fight off more of them. Not unless Lucina comes back.”We took the stairs two and three at a time, rushing to get back down. By the time we reached the floor, the faint sound of rotors were audible.“What’s wrong?” Eli asked when she saw our worried faces.Wyatt pointed up at the opening above us. “Helicopter inbound.”Her face fell. “Are you serious?”“Unfortunately,” I said.The look of hopeless despair was only on her fac
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When they’d finished their bro hug, they walked over to us. The big man nodded to me. “You’re Kira.” He said it like a statement rather than a question, and he put a thumb to his own chest. “August. August Evander. I figured I had to come save my alpha’s ass.”I frowned at Wyatt, who rolled his eyes before punching August’s shoulder. “Unofficial packs don’t have alphas. Not a leader alpha, anyway. I keep telling you that.”August shrugged. “Whatever.”Crew joined us, and his relief was palpable. “Are you here for us? Can we hitch a ride home?’August looked over Crew’s head at the people huddled by the wall, then at the ruination Simon and Lucina had wrought. He nodded. “I suppose we are. No offense, buddy, but you all look like a shit smear on the ass of a harpy.”“Thanks,” Crew said wryly. “We feel even worse. You have no idea how happy we are to see you guys.”August pointed a thumb over his shoulder at the helicopter. “Get your folks on there. This place isn’t safe. Honestly, we’r
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Once we were about a hundred yards off the coast, a shadowy ripple appeared around the entire island, and was gone in the blink of an eye. One of Lucina’s new wards. A fortress spell to keep anyone from ever trying to use the island for evil again.From this distance, Bloodstone Island looked like paradise. The horrors that lurked there were invisible. Like most things, its true nature was hidden until you were right upon it.Much like people. From far away, a person might appear to be smiling, but once you stood next to them, you saw the smile was actually a hungry grin. That the gleam in their eyes was really madness.Chapter 14WyattOnce we’d leveled off and were far enough away from the island, Kolton joined us. “You guys can take off your seatbelts and move around if you want. We have about a few hundred miles to the coast, where we’ll need to refuel, and then another couple hundred miles or so to our pack lands.”The survivors mostly stayed put, but several others unsnapped the
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