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Gasps of surprise around us make me fight a smile. The air is just starting to warm and the sun is barely up, gilding the two bodies writhing around on the ground. My dick jerks in my pants and I glare at it.
Fucker! There’s no time for this shit.
Alex slams her head again and then Lana bumps her hips up and knocks her loose. She leaps to her feet and cheers rain around us. It doesn’t seem to deter her though. Alex just settles into a crouch and watches wryly as the other woman lifts a hand and then slaps at her. She darts to the side again but this time the other female spots it coming and she darts too and the two bodies collide in a hard hit that makes me wince.
Alex grabs her by the waist and twists and throws her over her hip. Lana lands with a thud, grunting as Alex lands on top of her and wraps her hands around her throat. “Vrecking give up,” I growl under my breath.
Nobody hears me because the crowd is chanting loudly, cheers and calls around us.
Lana rolls and suddenly Alex is on the defensive and Lana’s hands are wrapped around her throat. My heart seizes in my chest as Alex fights for each raspy breath.
A roar rips into the balmy air around us and all the females still. Then they run, hollering to each other as they grab weapons. My body turns and I face certain death, teeth glistening with blood, fur matted with sweat and dirt and things that I don’t want to think of. It lunges upwards, so tall that I have to look way up to see its beady little eyes locked on…Alex.
She’s lying on the ground, her head bent, coughing helplessly.
I grab a loose blade and race to the beast. It turns towards me and a long paw swipes out and catches me in the shoulder. I grunt but I drive my blade into his side.
He roars and then drops to the ground, shaking the blade loose before lunging around me to Alex.
The other females keep their distance but one of them is sitting in a chair and her leg is in a cast.
It seems to see the weak female and it charges at her as she screams. Alex gets dizzily to her feet and she sees the other female trying to wheel her chair back desperately. None of the others is close enough to help and it’s so close.
Alex and I both grab new blades and I nod to the side. She dips her chin and we stalk around the beast.
The other female eyes us, her eyes bright with fear. But Alex and I just maneuver until we’re poised and then when it lunges and its belly is exposed, both of us leap and her blade hits it in the side and my blade plunges straight through its midsection, slicing open its belly.
It rears up and screams, the sound making my ears bleed it’s so loud and shrill.
Then it falls to the ground and twitches, blood spilling along with entrails out of its belly. The stench of death hangs around us and my hands are coated with its blood but I don’t care. I lunge to Alex and hold her close, kissing her cheek. I glance down at my bare arms and see the darkening trail of vines and flowers on my skin.
“Kora. I love you.”
“I love you too, koree.”
I shiver when she says the word that I never thought I’d be lucky enough to hear.
She’s mine and she’s finally admitting it. Shrieking and crying brings me back to the fight.
I hold Alex close and move her behind me as the leader runs at us. But she doesn’t attack us like I expect. Instead she throws her arms around Alex who grunts at the impact.
I stare down at the two females and wonder what the hell just happened. Maybe I died?
But the leader smiles and pulls back, tears in her eyes. “I cannot thank you enough. I thought my little sister was going to die. If you hadn’t….” She glances towards me and smiles shyly. “And your mate. If you hadn’t killed it she would have died. We weren’t close enough to kill it before it got her. Beede are deadly when they scent weakness.”
Nodding my head tiredly, I just hold Alex closer. She wraps her arms around me and breathes deep.
“If you need help getting home we will help you. And this one,” she points at me. “He has made us consider whether a partnership with out breeders, our males might bring us as much as your partnership has. I have never seen a better team. It’s like you could read each other’s minds.”
I study my mate and smile. “That’s because my heart knows hers better than my own.”
Alex grins. “And I know just what trouble he will find and how I can help him get out of it.”
“My name is Iona. And I believe I will talk with the others and then we need to talk to our…males. Maybe there is more to this teamwork that will benefit all of us.”
Iona grins. “If nothing else, at least we’ll know how to deal with this thing.”
She kicks at the beast and then nods her head and leaves us holding each other.
