Awaken: Book One: London by Limelan Z

Author:Limelan Z [Z, Limelan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Vince avoided my eyes as we moved outside but I could feel the aggression in him. Even my own fear wasn’t enough to dull the scent of my pack. They were itching to fight. I could feel it. Even though I was certain I was about to die, I also felt honoured that these strangers wanted to fight for me.

Wolfe stood in front of me but looked passed me at the circling spectators and the man who was about to kill me.

‘He is weak,’ he said. ‘You can take him easily.’

I felt sick. ‘How? I can’t control Ariane. What if she doesn’t appear?’

He looked at me then. ‘You can take him.’

I held my breath. His vote of confidence was meaningless. A werewolf – a pack alpha – was about to fight me, Ceri Hatherton, postgrad researcher. What was I going to do? Equation-him down?

‘Is this to the death?’ I swallowed.

He was very still. ‘Try to stop before, if you can.’

His words chilled me. I had wanted to trust him. I had wanted to feel more than a weapon, but wasn’t this what I’d feared? That my only use was as a tool for the CEO of a defence technology company. Whatever claim he had on the Northlands, no doubt my taking out some of his competition was some incentive to keep me under his control. Maybe the kiss had been just that too – a controlling technique.

‘Ready?’ called the voice of my challenger.

I didn’t even know his name. I was about to die after nearly four centuries of dumb, lucky survival and I didn’t even know my murderer’s name.

‘You are ready,’ murmured Wolfe.

And then he left me standing in a wide circle on the gravel of Fareham Castle.

‘R-Ready,’ I croaked as I watched the wolf take off his jacket.

I glanced down then at my dress and ridiculous shoes. Should I take the shoes off? The gravel would hurt my feet, so maybe I would fight better in four-inch stilettos.

Or maybe I would break my ankle minutes before I broke my neck.

Hah! Minutes… This wasn’t going to last that long.

I heard the crunch of stones and looked up just in time to see a hand reach out and grip my throat. A second later I was in the air and then shards of gravel were scraping along my arm as I skidded along the ground. I cried out at the acrid, slicing sting as shock and pain bit through me.

‘Well, this is not very impressive,’ he smirked.

Fear closed up my throat as I watched him slowly move towards where I now lay. It was hard fear. Like a piercing lump that paralysed every muscle.

I closed my eyes, bracing for the next attack. Don’t die, don’t kill him, don’t die, don’t kill him…

Then, in an instant, my heart had calmed. It was beating slow and steady. I could even feel the slight breeze against my hair.

I didn’t want to open my eyes. I was comfortable in my cocoon. Perhaps it had all been a dream.

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