The Alpha’s Forbidden Mate: Enemies to Lovers Shifter Romance by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 - Torren

Torren had never been so grateful to see a lorekeeper in his life. Everything seemed to happen all at once, once the dreamy spell of his night with Lethie had been broken; it was as though in the handful of seconds between her leaving the tent and him following her out, the entire world had been turned upside down. The moment he stepped onto the beach, he felt adrenaline charge his muscles and sharpen his vision, slowing time to a crawl. Two high warning howls of sentries in the trees behind him, shouts from wolves closer to the water—and the unmistakable reek of demons. Half a dozen of them on the beach already, and more visible in his peripheries, emerging from the trees. And out on the water, maybe a few hundred paces from shore, was a small boat playing host to a blur of white robes.

And by the time he’d taken all this in, Torren had already shifted. His paws struck the sand running, and he hurled himself at the nearest attacker, severing two limbs from its hideous bulk before it could even finish turning around to meet his assault. The demon’s blood spilled onto sand they’d only just gotten clean, and Torren kept up the momentum, snarling his defiance as yet more demons turned to engage him. He couldn’t let himself worry about why the demons were attacking in broad daylight when they were so much stronger at night, couldn’t let himself worry about the lorekeeper getting safely ashore, couldn’t even let himself worry about where Lethie had gone in the handful of minutes she’d been out of his sight. There were demons pouring into his pack’s home base, and his only priority right now was to turn back the attack.

It would have been a longer and potentially more costly battle if it hadn’t been for the lorekeeper, Torren reflected later. Wave after wave of demons poured out of the trees, Torren and his pack fighting with increasing desperation to keep them at bay. The size and strength of the attack would have been considerable even in the demon’s preferred time of darkness—given that it was broad daylight, it was downright preposterous.

But they weren’t alone in the fight, to his immense relief. Adrenaline high, he turned at some point to realize that the little boat had made its way to shore, and that the white-robed lorekeeper was sprinting up the beach to join the fray. Wolf-shaped, he couldn’t spare more than a glance in the woman’s direction, but that was all it took to recognize an old friend. Syrra, the island’s senior lorekeeper, had come in person. He’d expected her to delegate the mission to an underling—she’d been every bit as angry as her soulmate Renfrey when she’d learned about the risks Torren and his pack were taking on Rochmar. He felt a strange mixture of embarrassment and gratitude that she was here…at least, until a glancing blow from a demon reminded him that he had more important priorities for the time being.

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