The Wolf's Witch (book 1)

24. I'll Chomp Your Tail off

Sethan: 

I watched devastated as Kaitlin went to him. 

Four steps and I almost reached her. My hand was a split second from wrapping itself around her wrist when her white eyes flashed what I could only identify as cold, blind wrath down to my core. It terrified me and nothing besides loss these days did. 

Why did this witch freeze me where I stood and not even literally... Had she frozen me like she had back in my father's room, I'd understand. This, those eyes that bore into mine and made me doubt every certainty and irrefutable fact that I knew without so much of a blink. My body felt heavy and I wanted her to quit looking at me like that. 

Kaitlin's tiger, she so weirdly referred to as a mere cat, nudged me with the side of his thigh, knocking me back to life. 

"Kate." I called but the demon's fingers wrapped around hers and squeezed once as if promising not to let go. The demon made a show of displaying Marcus's canines. I leapt back and tried to shake myself out of this haze. Marcus was a new wolf which meant the wolf inside him was fighting with the demon for control. My wolves outside were surrounded. The witch or the demon, I don't know who had taken over the remaining members of the Emerald pack we hadn't been able to account for. We'd thought they had ran but- 

Elizabeth waiting for us like sheep made a lot of sense now. Four of my wolves were down and we'd just lost Kaitlin. I risked a glance at her tiger who shifted back to sit, glaze locked on Kaitlin. 

He would've killed me earlier but he'd nudged me. I hadn't heard him approach. He was suddenly there when earlier he'd been on my opposite side. I'd heard him earlier, helping my wolves outside. 

"You forgive me?" Kaitlin asked the demon, voice sweet as if in trance. 

This can't be happening. 

"Kate." I said louder, drawing the will of my pack to do so. Her eyes found mine instantly. I spotted a hint of some of her obstinate disregard to authority. She was pissed I'd ordered her to listen to me. Good, she's not gone completely. Not yet. "I'm sorry." I said and took a step towards her, "I'm sorry your parents died. You don't deserve that. Nobody does." 

"Murdered, mutt." her brows narrowed at me, "They were murdered. Get your facts straight." 

"I'm sorry." I repeated because I was and I hoped sharing it would remind her that she'd been helping me. That what happened was in the past and Elizabeth and that demon had murdered many other parents as well. "Do you really want to help them create more orphans?" 

Kaitlin turned her attention back to Marcus's twisted face. 

"That time," she said, "Why didn't you accept my offer back then?" 

My world twisted upside down as she bluntly dismissed my words. I already felt light headed from blood loss. 

"I didn't refuse. You caught me off guard. You were a child." he replied and made no haste in eyeing her from head to toe and back, "You're not now." 

"Cleary." she smiled back earning me enough time to shift into my wolf form. It fucking hurt. My wolf didn't want to come out. He wallowed and was stuck trying deny how Kaitlin was choosing a demon over us. 

As for me, I didn't care for what she chose. I'd be damned if I was going to lose someone else. 

I took out Elizabeth first. 

She'd been gawking at the two of them making goggly eyes at each other. I had no time to savour my kill. I bit her head clear off and extended my influence over the tiger as I circled for the demon. He turned, giving Kaitlin his back and I realized I needed to make this quick before she got me in her sight. Her powers were no joke. I'd never seen anything like it. She'd twisted my pack bonds undetected and turned my wolves against one another. I suspected that biting Leon had something to do with her success in controlling him but I couldn't be certain.