Chapter 63 63
AIDAN
I had no idea how I ended up caught in all of this, but I would never have imagined stepping into a wolf fight. And yet, the collar was burning against my chest, and I had heard Lois scream. When I caught the scent of her blood, I almost lost my mind. I ran toward the sound, hiding myself, but that Alpha noticed my presence. Even so, he didn’t pay me any attention—he was in a brutal fight with Emmanuel while the other wolves surrounded Ezequiel and Lois.
“Take her out of here!” Ezequiel shouted at me, right before shifting into that huge, shaggy beast.
I ran toward Lois, but the other wolves moved to block my path. Ezequiel kept them at bay.
I had to get her out.
She was injured, bleeding heavily, a bite on her neck and… she smelled like Ezequiel. He had just marked her. Now? Right now? Here? I lifted her naked body carefully into my arms, holding her close while a vicious fight raged behind us.
This was the largest, strongest pack—the one that practically kept order among the others, a pack with a deeply rooted hierarchy and a well-defined level of respect. I didn’t believe Emmanuel or Ezequiel could take on their father or the wolves with him. And I could already hear seven more wolves approaching. Among them, I was sure, was the pack’s Beta.
I looked back just as I began to run—the exact moment the twins looked at me at the same time. Everything in their eyes said one thing:
Take care of Lois.
They couldn’t fight and protect her at the same time—not with their father as the opponent and more wolves arriving.
Lois whimpered weakly, and my heart shattered at the sight of her pale face and blood-covered body. I knew I had to get her somewhere safe, far from the fight and the chaos. I ran faster, plunging deeper into the forest, searching for shelter.
I found a small cave hidden between the rocks.
Once inside, I stopped to check Lois’s condition. My collar burned against my skin, so I pulled off my shirt and pressed it against her wound. Her body was burning hot, releasing little sobs and whimpers, but she was unconscious. Her wounds hurt—she was in terrible shape.
I stepped outside for a moment to get my bearings, until I realized we were close to the human border.
“Fuck!” I hissed, the urgency slamming into me. The wolves were closing in. Three of them were coming, and they didn’t smell like Ezequiel or Emmanuel. They were fast—too fast. They’d reach us in under ten minutes, and that was being optimistic.
Lois’s blood was everywhere. Finding us would be easy.
I rushed back inside and saw her through the darkness.
She wasn’t healing. Her wounds were still open. I didn’t think she was healing at all.
I crouched beside her and lifted the shirt, seeing the blood still flowing.
“Lois! Heal!” I shouted, beyond desperate.
I was going to take off the collar—
Because I couldn’t keep going while Lois was in this critical state…
And I was going to have to fight.
I know how to fight, I know how to defend myself, I know how to kill a wolf if I have to, but if the one tracking us is the beta or the Alpha himself… we won’t survive. And as soon as I take off the collar, they’ll know there’s a vampire here.
Right… vampire. The vampires’ territory was also nearby. What if I went that way? No… I was a vampire, but I had never set foot in that place. And dawn was coming—two hours, maybe.
The real problem was that I couldn’t move Lois.
I felt like she was dying, slipping away, and I didn’t know if that came from her or from her mates. Were they even alive? I didn’t think their father would kill them, but… I didn’t know them or their father well enough to understand their family dynamic.
All I knew was that Emmanuel should never have run away with Lois. He never should have exposed her to retaliation or dragged her into an escape like that.