Deadly Pack (Deadly Trilogy Book 3) by Ashley Stoyanoff

Author:Ashley Stoyanoff [Stoyanoff, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashley Stoyanoff Books
Published: 2014-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

~ JADE ~

Mark was halfway across the backyard when the creaky front door opened. He seemed to hesitate in his step for a second, as if the sound caught him off guard, and it struck me as odd. We were expecting Aidan, and Mark had just sent someone to the store. People on the deck and the door opening didn’t seem odd to me, but his reaction to the sound had my inner-wolf doing backflips in my belly and the hair along my neck prickling my skin.

And that was when I realized that I hadn’t heard a vehicle, and it was at that moment that Mark started to run.

Things fell together.

It had only been minutes, five at the most, since whoever was sent to the store left. Nowhere near enough time to get there and back. And Aidan, he was coming from the pack headquarters and he’d only just left. Even speeding, it would take ten minutes to get home.

It took me less than a second to put it together, but by then Mom was already screaming, and so was Marcy, and I couldn’t breathe. A chill took hold of me. All my training, all my skills were suddenly just ... gone. Terror wound around me, washing over me, and my legs; they just wouldn’t work.

Until ... they did.

And I was moving, running for the back door, and my breath was pushing in and out of my lungs in harsh pants.

“No!” Erika got in my way fast. “No, you can’t just run in there.” She grabbed me, her hand squeezing tightly around my forearm, and she began yanking me backwards, further away from Mom and Marcy and the house.

“I have to,” I shrieked, digging my feet into the ground, and pulling against her hold. Panic gripped me. Mark was already gone. Vanished inside the house, but the screaming was still screeching through my ears.

Wolves surrounded Erika and me. Closing in, circling. There were five of them and it took me a second to realize through my panic induced haze that they were the women I’d just been speaking to.

My wolves.

They were growling. Lips curled, razor sharp teeth bared. Their heads were turned, watching the house as they positioned themselves around me. Protecting me, I thought, but as I listened to the screaming, protection was the last thing I wanted. Marcy and Mom, they were the ones who needed protecting, not me.

“Go help, Mark!” There was no mistaking the command in my tone. The wolves didn’t hesitate, not even a little. All five of them lunged forward as a unit, tearing across the grass toward the house.

I started to follow, but Erika’s hands clenched tighter on my forearm. Tight enough to bruise. “Jade, don’t,” she pleaded, sounding desperate and scared.

I looked at her hand, the angle she was gripping me from. I took a breath, tried to calm myself enough to think, and as I let it out, I saw it clearly. All I had to do was twist to the right and yank and I’d be free of her.

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