"If you want , you can wait and confirm it," I put my hand into my pants pockets, watching him frowning. "What's with you acting so cool?" He raised an eyebrow at me. "You are going to be hunted by them as well." I chuckled and decreased the distance between us. This predator is just shifting into his wolf to wipe them all out. But what about you Seth?" I leaned forward towards his small face and smiled, "Still not shifting?" He froze for a moment and gave me a blank look, "I don't need to." He turned around to face the arriving rogues. He My eyes flashed with amusement, "There are at least eight to ten of them that you are planning to take down without shifting. You wanna die that desperately!" "Yeah, I am desperate but not to die but to cross that finishing line before anyone else does ," he glanced over his shoulder and met my gaze. "So don't get in my way, Alpha Ronan. I will fight for you as well to pay back the unexpected and unasked for help you showed me earlier so stand there and have a good show." The amusement within me instantly dropped, my eyes boring deep into him intensely as the rogues pounced on him . He wanted to fight for me? To pay off what I had done earlier? The hand at my side shook, my wolf growling lowly in my mind watching him fight without flinching, his moves like lightning finishing one and then instantly heading to another. However, the moment a drop of blood dripped from his arm, my patience that I did not realise I had been holding, snapped. I jumped in beside Seth, instantly taking care of one of the rogues. Seth glanced at me for a moment as we fell into rhythm, moving as one. He slashed through a rogue's flank while I landed bone-breaking blows non-stop. The air filled with the sounds of snarls, the clash of claws and fists against flesh and stone. One rogue lunged at me. I flipped it and he pinned the creature to the ground, my claws poised for a killing blow to finish him at once. "Wait!" Seth shouted, stepping in, "Don't kill." I growled, my killing mode already activated and not stopping before I finished all of them, "They're feral. I'll end him." "This is their territory." Seth snapped. "We trespassed. We are in the wrong here, they are just protecting their land. I don't kill out of anger or for fun! Let them go. Don't kill!" The defiance and the mercy in his gaze that I had never witnessed before did something inside me. But no one gave me orders. No one. I was always in control. In command yet… I found myself letting the rogue go. "There is no way I don't kill a person who comes at me with the same intentions." Getting up, I strode up to Seth and grabbed. his wrist, "If you don't want me to kill then we are leaving." We bolted, weaying through the ruins as the rogues snarled behind us. The feral figures chased but didn't stray far from their haunted grounds. I glanced over my shoulder as they stopped. Why? Why did they suddenly stop? It was as if they were bound by old, unseen chains and could not cross the ruins. The moment we crossed the broken archway marking the ruin's edge, the night air changed. The oppressive weight lifted. He kept running alongside me, matching my speed. "This is the way I saw on the map!" he exclaimed, turning down the correct path I was unaware that I had my hand firmly grasped around his wrist. And together side by side as we were about to break O He relaxed his wrist and glanced up at me, "Is it not funny that the hunter and prey cross the line together?" I froze at his remark where the look in his eyes over actually labeling me in his Prey. My wolf froze in my mind, as he walked past me towards the finishing line, locking our eyes for a brief moment. "Make sure to cross it, Alpha Ronan, don't just stare at me." Watching him cross the line, my lips curled up, "Indirectly warning me to not eye him, huh?" my eyes once again drawn to his hips. "Well, that seems…a little too hard to ignore." Send Gifts