Page 53 of Unbelievable Faith
“It won’t work.” She raised her chin when Sasha glared at her, “It won’t. They’re too smart to come after me as one group. They’ll splitup.”
“Which is why I set more than onetrap.”
“They’re smarter than you. There are more of them. And they have something greater than hate driving them. They love me. I have so many people that love me. How many people do you have? Even your mate chose me over you. I have a true mate who is a true Alpha. I have family and friends and they’re going to come forme.”
Despite the fact she could see the anger and hatred overtaking Sasha’s once beautiful features, Luna kept talking. She wanted her mad. She wanted her so angry that she stopped thinking. Anger wasn’t a good weapon. It blocked reason and logic. She wanted Sasha so angry that she made another mistake and then, then she was going to make hermove.
“They’ll get past your traps and they’ll track you back here. Even if you covered your tracks, you’re bleeding all over the place. They can probably scent it from a mile away, if not more. They’re going to find us and then they’re going to killyou.”
Sasha’s claws and teeth had elongated as she growled, “I’m dying anyway you little bitch but I intend to take you and as many of those people you say love you with me as possible whenI…”
A loud boom tore through the forest, cutting Sasha off and making Luna jerk her head around. A cloud of smoke rose from the treeline in the distance and her heart dropped into her stomach. An explosion, it had been an explosion, which meant someone had tripped one of Sasha’straps.
Luna spun back to the woman who had a self-satisfied smile on her face and whatever calm she’d managed to keep, abandoned her. This person had helped Maddox to slaughter her parents. She’d trapped and tortured Luna’s sisters. She wanted to kill everyone that Luna loved and that explosion had been the beginning of her war on them, one that Luna had to end before anyone else gothurt.
With a growl she forced a half shift and used her claws to finish cutting the zip ties she’d been slicing at all day apart. As soon as they broke, she shoved forward. She lunged at Sasha who was still staring out the window with that eerily happy look on her face. The woman hadn’t been expecting her to attack and let out a squeak of surprise as Luna tackled her, taking her to the ground and punching her in the throat, knocking the air out of her and making her choke. She didn’t stop there. She couldn’t. She knew if she gave her a chance to get up, to get the upper hand, that Sasha would killher.
Luna reared back, prepared to slash the other woman’s throat, but Sasha bucked, narrowly escaping her claws and then rolled them. Luna hissed and brought her arms up defensively, guarding her face as Sasha screamed obscenities at her, called her names and generally tried to beat the hell out of her. But she didn’t use her claws, didn’t try to kill her, and that was her mistake because Luna realized she wanted to punish her more than she wanted to murder her, which gave her a fightingchance.
She took a swipe to her cheek, causing her to see stars, but she recovered quickly as Sasha attempted to sit on top of her. Blood. It was everywhere. Her mind was slow to process through the realization that it wasn’t hers but as soon as she did she went for the weakness in heropponent.
Luna dropped one of her arms, taking another blow to the face, but before Sasha could deliver another, she jammed her hand upwards and sank her claws into the other woman’s side. Sasha screamed. Luna twisted, digging her claws deeper into the open wound and winced as blood began to drip down her arm. Sasha was screaming and jerking, pain twisting her features into something unrecognizable but Luna didn’t stop. Not until she could push Sasha off of her and roll so she was on top, the one in a position ofpower.
Blood dripped from Sasha’s lip and her teeth were red when she looked up at Luna, giving an eerie smile, “You’re too late. It doesn’t matter. Murder me the same way your mate murdered mine. He’s going to dieanyway.”
Luna pulled her arm back, prepared to deliver a strike to Sasha’s jugular and end this once and for all but those words pulled her up short and she listened. She really listened and her heart stopped dead in her chest. There was someone in the woods, coming towards the cabin, and everything inside of her told her that it wasMichael.
He was here. He’d come for her, just like Sasha had known he would. But she’d set traps, so manytraps…
“No!” She screamed as she scrambled off the ground, “No, no,no!”
Luna burst through the front door of the cabin waving her arms madly and screaming for Michael to stop moving. He was there, right at the edge of the clearing and his eyes grew wide and panicked when he caught sight of her. She knew she must be a sight, covered in Sasha’s blood as she was. Her face bruised from the punches she’d taken. But when he started towards her at a run she screamedagain.
“No! Stop! Stop!” She shrieked and the absolute terror in her voice must have gotten through to Michael because he pulled up short and stared at her across the distance. “She has traps set everywhere. I don’t… I don’t know where they are. Don’t come closer. Please,don’t…”
“Luna look out!” Michael yelled, cutting her off and taking another step forward despite herwarning.
At the same time, she felt the hand tangle in her hair and pull so hard her head was wrenched back. She gave a wince of pain as Sasha pulled her off her feet and ordered her to her knees. Tears welled in her eyes as Luna was jerked down to kneel, her hair ripped from her head by the angry bitch that she’d hesitated to kill only momentsbefore.
She’d been more worried about saving Michael. She hadn’t thought of herself. She’d thought Sasha was injured badly enough she wouldn’t be able to come after her but she’d been wrong. She’d been the one to make the mistake this time and now, now she had to correct it before this psychotic wolf forced her to watch as she killed hermate.
