Page 27 of Meeting Her Mate
“Behind you!” Alexis yelled.
I rolled around just in time to block Blair’s blow. The cunning man held a syringe with glowing liquid inside it in his hand. I slapped it away from his grasp and grabbed him by his head.
“Don’t hold back now, you brute,” Blair spat blood on my face.
Perhaps he underestimated the severity of hate I had for his father, the same hate that I extended to him for threatening Alexis’s life and for luring me into a trap. I recoiled my head and crashed it into his head. The blow did nothing to me, but it knocked a few of his teeth loose.
Surprisingly, he did not give up. Instead, he pulled me back and threw me into a cart loaded with test tubes and beakers. Glass crashed into my face, dazing me out.
“I have had my eyes on you since the moment you escaped. I’ve been spying patiently on every single of your developments. Do you think you can train your pack of dogs? You? You ancient fossil?”
Blair took advantage of my dazed state and delivered a spinning kick to my face. I brought up my hand and caught his kick in midair.
As I pulled him by his foot, my arms suddenly started shifting into their wolf form. My fingernails extended into lethal claws, digging into his skin and drawing blood.
“Will!” Alexis yelled from behind, but I was too occupied with fury to pay heed to her. Rather than try to control it, I directed that malevolent energy into shifting into my wolf form.
Blair crawled away from me, his hand disappearing behind his back. His face betrayed the horror he was feeling. As I leaped into the air, crossing the distance between us, I saw him take out a handgun from behind him.
I came down upon him, my claws striking away the gun from his hand before he got the chance to shoot it.
“Turns out we’re both cheaters, huh, Will the wolf?” Blair laughed.
I dug my claws into his torso and pulled, fulfilling my promise of rending his flesh. He screamed as his skin came loose and blood spurted from his chest.
“Will! Stop!” Alexis jumped out of nowhere and threw me off Blair’s bleeding body. “You can’t kill him.”
Perplexed by her behavior, I shifted back into my human form and approached her.
“You ask me to spare this man, this vile vermin who beat you, bound you, and used you as bait?” I asked. I was addressing Alexis, but my eyes were constantly fixed on Blair. I had torn gashes into his chest, gashes that would leave a scar forever, reminding him of his mistake.
“You already have red in your ledger, Will,” she said. “There’s blood on your hands. I…I just don’t want you to have any more blood on your hands. Can you please understand this?”
Gently, she placed her hand on my chest, coming close to me.
“Feel it in your heart,” she said. “You don’t want to be a murderer. This is beneath you. Don’t let rage take hold of you. Do not let your anger overpower your senses.”
I stepped away from her, approaching Blair. I lifted him by the collar of his shirt and made him look me in the eyes. “Had she not pleaded on your behalf, you would have been rotting in hell with your father right now.”
“Seems like you’ve got a keeper,” Blair said.
“I am sparing you this time. The next time, I will not be considerate. If you so much as think of coming near my pack or me, I will unleash the wrath of Fenrir upon you. You’ll wish you were dead, but I’d deal you a fate far worse than death.”
“Oh, yeah? What are you going to do? Trap me in a basement against my will?” Blair cackled. “Come on. Don’t listen to your lady. Do it. You know you want to do it. Kill me!”
“Will, please!” Alexis moaned from behind.
I threw him on the floor.
“Coward!”
I did not have to kill him, but I did not have to take his shit, either. I brought my boot down on his face, crushing his nose and knocking him unconscious.
“Not that you can hear it, but that’s for hurting her face,” I growled.
He did not move. I could see that he was breathing, but other than that, Blair was unconscious.
“Are you hurt?” I asked, finally directing my undivided attention to Alexis. I lifted her face in my hands, inspecting her facial injuries.