(eng) Kyla Stone - The Last Sanctuary 06 by No Safe Haven

Author:No Safe Haven [Haven, No Safe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Echo let out the first cry, a cross between a pained whimper and an agonized howl. She heard the terrible thump of his body hitting the ground. The men laughed and high-fived each other, hooting and yelling in celebration.

Their backs were turned to her. They didn’t see her take several shaking steps toward them. Didn’t see her standing numb and horrified on the path, fog swirling around her, exposed for anyone to see but too stunned to move.

Five men leaned over the timber wolves’ paddock, rifles tucked against their shoulders as they fired into the enclosure.

She recognized Cerberus, Jagger, Ryker, Scorpio. The fifth Headhunter was half-turned in the other direction. When he swung back toward the enclosure, a flashlight beam caught his face—angled cheekbones, narrow chin, spiky fox-red hair, the gleam of metal piercings.

A sharp bitterness welled in the back of her throat. Damien may not have ratted her out, but he was one of them all the same. A Headhunter. A thug and a killer. Cruel and malicious, no different than the rest of these repugnant thugs.

Another gunshot drew her attention.

The Headhunters were shooting the wolves. For sport. For fun.

The timber wolves had fled into the protection of the trees, desperately trying to evade the thunderous noises and explosions of pain. Aspen and Titus were snarling and growling fiercely. Loki and Suki were whimpering. Shika let out a long, mournful howl of despair.

The Headhunters moved around the fence, hurling insults and laughing. When they couldn’t spot the wolves, they shot randomly into the underbrush

Titus burst out of the trees, charging at the Headhunters in a desperate bid to protect his pack. Ryker aimed and fired.

Titus took two staggering steps and fell with a moan. He didn’t get up.

Cerberus and Ryker laughed. Jagger slapped Ryker on the back. Damien’s expression was indifferent, his eyes hard and blank.

Run! Raven’s brain screamed at her. RUN! But she couldn’t. Her legs were lead. She felt dizzy, disconnected, her brain stuffed with cotton.

Instead of fleeing for the safety of the woods, she backed away, spun, and stumbled on wobbly legs to the gate she’d left less than an hour before. She opened the outer gate, slipped inside, locked it. Crossed the no man’s land barrier, and repeated the same motions on autopilot, hardly realizing what she was doing.

Mist curled around her legs. Everything had taken on an eerie, silvery glow. The fog was creeping ever closer, almost like it was alive. Like it would take everything she cared about and devour it, one murky, malignant mouthful at a time.

More gunshots split the air. She flinched.

Another wolf screamed in agony. She wasn’t sure which one. Suki or Shika? Her mind churned with revulsion and helpless fury.

She had to keep moving. She staggered inside the hybrid enclosure, still not sure what she was doing, not even certain this was the safer option. The hybrids might be so worked up and frantic at the gunshots, they could tear her to pieces where she stood.

But they didn’t.

When she entered the clearing near the den, Shadow’s great head appeared.

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