Bad Moon on the Rise by Annie Bellet

Author:Annie Bellet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

My sandaled feet hit the sands and I dropped into a crouch, landing almost super-hero style before rising to my full height. I blocked out the yells and questioning calls of the crowd, their tone caught between interest and surprise. Most of them probably still thought this was all part of the show.

I spared a glance at Russel as I heard glass break. Blood marred his pearl buttoned shirt where he’d pulled the champagne stem from his side. The glass I’d heard was him dropping it to the floor. He made no move to follow me down so I moved across the sands toward the immediate threats.

The lions had broken off their attack again, turning toward me as I ran at them. From their flattened ears and snarling jaws to the springing tension in their muscles, they clearly understood that I was another threat and they had had enough.

“Kira? We’re coming in, stay away from the main door if you can until the signal,” Cora’s voice said into my ear piece.

I didn’t ask what the signal would be, I had a feeling I’d find out.

But first, lions.

The uninjured lioness charged me, rearing up to swipe with her huge paws. I shifted as I sprang at her, turning tiger in the space between one breath and the next. My own paws caught her and threw her aside. Her claws merely tickled against my thick fur, unable to find purchase before she was flying across the sand. Her jaws closed on air as she tumbled away. I gave a coughing roar, leaping again to place myself between the lions and the girl.

Smells assaulted me with the change, glorious and overwhelming. Sea air, hot dust, blood, fear sweat, a hundred different perfumes and colognes mingling with the strong scents of lion, bear, and wolf. So much wolf, their musky distinctive scent permeating the air even in the arena. The world was full and rich and real again.

The lionesses retreated across the sands, the severely injured one finally collapsing a dozen feet away, her eyes going dull as blood loss and exhaustion took their toll. The other two moved as far away from us as they could get. A tiger was too much for them and they knew it, starved and angry as they were, they still had a sense of self-preservation. Lions are huge, but tigers are bigger, and shifter tigers? We’re fucking monstrous.

I shifted again when no new threat presented itself. Russel started clapping and the crowd tentatively followed his lead. He glared down at me with a wild look in his eyes.

“Can you walk?” I asked the girl, keeping my eyes on Russel.

“It doesn’t matter, where are we going to go?” she said.

As if to punctuate her words, one of the barred doors near the lions slid open. The two surviving ones took the escape into what was likely familiar territory for them and disappeared into the gloom beyond. The door slammed down behind them and the big doors from the tunnel opened.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.