The Last of Her Kind by B. F. Worlds

Author:B. F. Worlds [Worlds, B. F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781980784395
Google: qXYmtgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 48199265
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2018-04-12T20:45:28+00:00

CHAPTER 17

They stopped by a Burger King before driving to the nearby park. Rachel kept a large blanket in her trunk for reasons she refused to give and they spread it under a tree. Dinner was quick and afterwards, they reclaimed their positions from the bowling alley; Dean in the middle with the girls tucked against her sides. She felt safe, like she could say anything. "I'm going to start with a question. Have you two heard of the blood wolves?"

"Are you kidding?" Rachel exclaimed. "They're like the monsters under the bed for changers!"

"Worse," Viktoriya added. "The blood wolves were the single biggest threat to changers. The other races outnumber us five to one on a good day, but they won't attack us because a war would unite the packs together and a thousand pissed off changers will demolish ten thousand of any other race. That's not me being confident. It's the way our magic functions. The larger the pack, the stronger we become. United against a common enemy, we'd be virtually unstoppable.

It's why Franklin is so desperate to accomplish it. The blood wolves, well, they aren't even changers or at least a different breed. More animal and human, they were legendary warriors who went mad on bloodlust. What made them so dangerous was that they could...infect us. The same way vampire toxin, in large enough quantities, could infect a human. Their blood is the only poison we can't fight off. But they're extinct now. What do they have to do with what you want to tell us?"

Dean, who had been internally wincing at the words being thrown out, perked up at the last bit of information. We aren't changers? Infect? Her confidence was more than a little shaken and she gulped nervously, thinking of a way she could escape the conversation. The arms over her stomach felt less comforting and more like chains, weights trapping her in her anxiety.

Rachel picked up on it first, raising her head to look Dean in the eyes. "Dean, are you alright?"

Dean used a hand to lay Rachel's head back on her shoulder. "Maybe not, so I'm going to push this story out as fast as possible. Please don't interrupt me." She swallowed, letting out a deep breath. "If I stop, I don't know if I can finish.

The story I gave Franklin isn't that far from the truth. I did live with a pack and we were pretty isolated. We built our compound in the thick of the Appalachian, tens of miles from any city or town. The first lie I told him was that we were a group of rogues. We were...blood wolves. I'm a blood wolf. My family was the last remaining pack in the world."

She heard the expected gasps, but Dean ignored them, already lost in the memories. "We were smaller than the Freewoods, not even a hundred strong. It's funny. It's been years but I can still remember all their faces. We weren't like these modern packs, spread out in human society.

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