Scarecrows and Slick by V.T. Bonds

Author:V.T. Bonds [Bonds, V.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: V.T. Bonds
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

James

Despite my newly knitted flesh and renewed hatred of the alpha by my side, relief pours through me as I lay eyes on my omega.

Until her ashen face, bloody shoulder, and unfocused eyes register.

She’s not okay.

I knew she wouldn’t be by the emotions and pain flowing through our weak bond, but I thought she’d be in better shape than the city slicker. She’s not. At all. If anything, she looks like she’s on death’s doorstep.

Sathanas can’t have her. She’s mine.

Not only mine.

Ours.

If what I’m feeling is only secondhand to the agony resounding through my omega and her other mate’s bond, then it’s no wonder she’s miserable.

Her unfocused eyes find mine in the darkness.

She called us here, both me and the city slicker. She needs us. Now.

I growl as my attention expands to our surroundings for the first time.

The two human males she walked down the hill with the first time I saw her have their hands on her.

Rage consumes me. They’re dead meat.

The city slicker’s furious growl assures me he feels the same.

Without words, we lunge forward and attack with lethal precision. I grab the closest idiot’s throat and crush his windpipe with my fist. His eyes bulge. I peel his seizing fingers off Heather’s wrist, jerk his head back by his greasy hair, and sink my fingertips into his flesh, past muscles and tendons, until I curl my fingers around solid bone. With a jerk and a pop, I sever his spinal cord before yanking his spine from his body. The wet sucking sound as I remove his backbone brings me immense satisfaction. I grunt in amusement and wrench a lone rib off its vertebra and toss it into the corn before dropping the stringy, floppy spinal column to the dirt.

His gutted body crumples like an accordion.

My omega goes limp in my periphery. I catch her before she hits the ground. Alarm spears through me at her shallow breathing. She’s too pale.

I gather her into my arms and cradle her to my chest as I sit in the middle of the filthy trail. Even covered in blood and another male’s seed, the urge to rut and mark her thrusts me toward an alpha rampage, but her lashes fanning across her cheeks and her utter stillness scare me into sanity.

I snarl as boots approach from my left but stop when I recognize the city slicker.

“What are you waiting for? Mark her already,” he mumbles.

As his bloodlust drains away, he staggers and falls to a knee in front of me.

“I can’t,” I snarl. “You first.”

He shakes his head, loses his balance, and tips onto his ass.

“I got you because she needs you, stupid halfwit,” he says as his breaths turn choppy.

The red light in his eyes fades until they emit the barest glow, and if it weren’t for the artificial lamps, he’d blend into the darkness.

My spicy little pumpkin isn’t the only one about to die.

I grab him by the collar and pull him through the sand until his face hovers over hers as I snarl.

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