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Thump, thump.
Thump, thump.
I felt myself smile hearing the gorgeous sound of Miko’s heart with mine.
Erna was almost upon me.
Thump, thump.
Thump, thump.
I sensed something bad happening to my mate. Seriously bad. In an instant, Erna’s relevance dropped. My attentionsnared on Miko, my rage becoming worry, manifesting across my skin as a burning itch.
“Miko?”
Something pink…
Oh, stars. What was going on?
“Miko?”
CHAPTER TEN
MIKO
The tendril shot forward, burrowing itself into my forehead. I howled in pain, hundreds of tiny jaws chewing through flesh and bone, working quickly to reach my brain.
I jumped up and scrambled forward, clutching my skull. Pink dots burst to life in my vision, my blood pumping hotter, my control under attack.
My mind resisted the invader spreading its pink roots. I saw them as if watching a virus growing under a microscope, some fucked up movie playing on a pop-up screen in my brain.
“Holy fuck!” I boomed, everything falling under a pink haze.
Crawling, wriggling, ants clambering over my defenses, nothing more than a helpless grub caught in the path of their relentless march. I was being taken over, falling into pinkness.
Becoming…
Becoming…
…one of them.
“You can’t have me!” I cried. Out loud? Internally? I had no clue. I wasn’t even sure if I was awake anymore, I could only see the pink smoke.
I fell into confusion, my desire to fight ebbing, my organs ready to fail.
“No! I won’t let you give up!” I bellowed at them.
But they were weak against the onslaught of Dawn. It was ruthless and powerful and my master. It wanted me. It would have me in death, and then…
A lust for flesh flickered somewhere inside me, waiting to rise. To eat. To eat. Eat. Eat. Eat.
But there were blockages. Poxy supernatural blood. Why wouldn’t it bend? Why did it always have to resist the true master?
“Will you be quick or slow?” Dawn said, the pinkness rippling around me.
“Neither. I’ll be me…” I countered, clinging to myself with the last of my desperation.
Laughter. “You are mine, wolf. There is no escape. There is no prophecy to fulfill. This is the beginning of the end. You belong to me. I will claim the blood of the unyielding creatures.”
