The Broken Warrior's Daughter

Shots ring out all around us and in an instant, | know what they learned in their experiments on the rogues. They've figured out a way to not just incapacitate us, but to kill us quickly. | watch as a wolf beside me takes a shot to the shoulder. The silver bullet immediately ‘melts’, turning into liquid silver and spreading into his system. The initial wound takes him down, but as | watch, | can see the silver spread. The minute it gets to his heart, | feel his life snuff out through my AlphaNôvelDrama.Org holds © this.

bond.

Louis howls is anger and pain and we turn with renewed vigor back to the battle. Not only are we outnumbered, if any wolf takes a hit from a bullet, it will kill them. The Guardians and their mates have a resistance to silver, but | don’t think that will save us today. We are all going to die on this battlefield. But before that happens, I’m going to take down as many as | can.

The battle is bloody. Hunters lay dead and dying all around me. Louis slicing through their bodies easily with his claws. We’ve ripped arms from bodies, throats from necks and his fur is covered in

blood, making his black fur look even darker.

From every direction, | hear wolves howling in pain as they take a hit from a bullet and I'm feeling my own pack members dying through my bond with them. It’s making it harder and harder to fight. Louis yelps as we're hit in the hind leg by a bullet. | feel the burning pain of the silver as it starts

to melt and spread, causing him to limp. We now have to fight on three legs. It will take the silver awhile to get to my heart to kill us, but before that, I’m killing more hunters.

Somewhere in the fighting, | realize that Grace has joined. She and her sisters are taking out hunters, blowing them apart. But as fast as they are taking them out, more are appearing. There are just too many of them.

Louis and | move to get closer to her. Our need to protect her is so strong that it draws us to her in the battle. We won’t let anyone hurt our mate while we are still living. We can still feel the silver making its way closer and closer to our heart. | don’t know how much time we have left, but we will make the most of it.

As we bring down another hunter, | feel a bullet hit my side, punching through our lung. The cilver leaks out making it hard to breathe. Louis coughs before jumping on another hunter. There are so many, and there are fewer and fewer wolves every minute.

| felt Alpha Christopher’s tether break a moment before Alexander’s. Noah's broke earlier, having taken the first wave of attacks against the hunters. Without a wolf, Carlos has been able to survive the bullets, but | can feel him fading in my mind, as my own tether to Grace starts to wane. | cant feel the agony of the mates in the bunkers at the loss of so many mates.

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Across the battlefield, my eyes connect with Grace. She can feel me dying. Her eyes are wide as she stares at me, horrified. Beside her, | see Cara on the ground, hovering over someone. It takes me a moment to realize it’s Rik. He’s lying dead in her arms. It seems Cara’s grief is providing a buffer to the Guardians as the three of them seem uninjured. I’m glad to know my mate is safe.

Even if | couldn't be the one to do it.

As | watch her, | feel a bullet hit my chest. The liquid silver melts into my heart and with my last breath, | reach out in the mind link. “I love you, Grace.”

As the darkness sets in, and my surroundings fade, | see more than hear Grace screaming.

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That was intense. Don’t pull out your pitchforks just yet. | promise an HEA. And | wouldn’t be so cruel to leave you with this as a cliffhanger.

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