Chapter 208

• Sierra leaps over us and goes straight for the throat of an approaching wolf, appearing so suddenly from behind me that I didn’t even know she was still close. She takes it down with her in a bite, colliding body to body with a massive thud, and rolls around, grappling with it fiercely so that I cry out in terror. I yank them apart with my energy, directed between them as precisely as I can, and throw it back, so sure this time the returning grey is Radar. I can’t be one hundred percent without his telltale scar over his normally white eye because the black is shielding it like this, and his fur is so matted and unkempt from forest-dwelling that it covers what might be on his face. I can’t believe Radar would fight Sierra this way, try to hurt her, but then Colton threw half a forest at me.
• It’s like Colton senses something is up with us staying put and fighting our ground, and as I pull myself to my feet to take him face on, he stops and turns and looks towards the mountain where Leyanne and Meadow are headed. A glimpse at me again as if watching for a response, reassuring his suspicion, and a smile like a snarl. He turns, howling into the air, signaling his pack, and takes off after them. He goes off in hot pursuit, and I react instinctively.
• No! Shit…. He’s going after the witch. I have to stop him. Colton will kill whoever gets in his way.