Her Pack: A Reverse Harem Shifter Romance by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen – Maia

Zak was angry. For good reason, too, she supposed as she stared slack-jawed at his neck, where a deep, long gash sat, bleeding like a waterfall of gore. She didn’t remember making the blow, but she knew she had to have, because her right hand was drenched, claws still extended even though the rest of her was human. She’d be angry too, if someone had tried to kill her. Though, how he was still standing, she wasn’t sure.

Shouldn’t he be swaying on his feet, delirious with blood loss? Shouldn’t he be falling back, trying to hold his neck and put pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding? Why did he just stand there, staring at her with eyes of pure hatred?

Maia’s stomach flipped. She wanted to run and hide, which was ridiculous, because she was not the kind of shifter to ever turn tail and run away…was she? As she thought it, it didn’t feel right. She did run away. She ran away from Zak.

But…no. Not just that. She’d killed him. So how in the world was he standing before her, so pissed?

Maia brought a shaking hand to her head, running her bloody, clawed fingers through her hair. She shook her head, her heartbeat so fast in her chest it felt like it was going to pop out at any time, right through her lungs and her ribcage. She was not one to feel fright, but right now, she felt so very scared. The way Zak glared at her, the way he was so unaffected by the deep, nasty wound…it was the stuff of nightmares.

“You,” Zak spoke, and as he did, more blood spurted from the exposed veins in his neck. It coursed down his front, his shirt completely soaked, his pants beginning to stain red. They were on the beach, in the sun, warm and salty air stifling.

She couldn’t breathe.

“I’m going to kill you for this,” Zak said, taking a single step toward her, outstretching his hands for her own neck. “I’m going to make you beg me, Maia.” He smiled, blood staining his gums and his teeth. He was no longer the handsome son of the alpha, the future of their pack. He was a monster, a living nightmare.

Maia could not move, her feet planted in place. She wanted to scream, but she couldn’t. This was what she deserved, wasn’t it?

Zak’s hands slipped around her neck, not too tightly at first. They gained intensity slowly, almost painfully slowly. So measured that she hardly noticed she was choking until she couldn’t breathe air. Both sudden and slow. Her mouth opened, but nothing went in. Her eyes flicked to the sun.

No, stop, she wanted to say. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to—

But that’s the thing, wasn’t it? Maia wasn’t sorry. She did mean to. She’d meant the attack with every fiber of her being. She’d meant to slash his throat and kill him. Why wasn’t he dead? Why was he here, hurting her? Suffocating her? Was this a punishment for her sins against the pack?

They were not her pack.

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