Red {Wolf Rebellion I}

Chapter 24~Hunt The Hounds~

Tonight, the foxes hunt the hounds,
it's all over now, before it has begun.

-Fall Out Boy, "Young Volcanoes"

Chapter 24~Hunt The Hounds~

I moved quickly through the crowd, the dance floor forgotten as I tried to get to a good vantage point. While Red wanted to catch us as quickly as possible, they wouldn't risk exposure in a place like this. A few people at the mall, they could handle, but everyone here? Not so much. All I had to do was stay near the crowd until I found Adam.

I stopped near the bar, where a group of college students were cheering as a girl did shots. Their excitement would give me the cover I needed.

From my position, I watched the first wave of agents enter the club. While they were dressed like normal people-aside from seeming to have an obsession with red-out for a night of clubbing, the expressions that marred their faces were anything but normal.

My friends were not among this group, these agents looked downright lethal. Their faces were filled with cold hatred as they spread out along the entrance. It was hard to see exactly what they were doing in the low lights, but I guessed they were contacting another team.

When they began to move forward, one of them started my way. I watched the way his eyes scanned every face he passed, hunting for Carmine and me. I'd never thought that I'd be on the receiving end of that Hunting look.

I moved around the group of college kids, snatching an unattended beer bottle to try and blend in. I also made myself stumble on my feet a bit, I couldn't look like anything but a tipsy college girl right now. If Carmine was right, it was only a matter of time until my team arrived.

I had to ignore the urge to continually glance behind me to make sure none of the agents were near me, that would only make me stand out. I had to trust that my changed hair would provide the disguise I needed if anyone decided to take a closer look.

Before I could take another step toward the bathroom, I collided with a wall of solid muscle. My body froze in fear as I tried to come up with an excuse, half afraid I'd look up to see an agent.

"Hey I've been looking everywhere for you!" Cas's slurred voice startled me as I glanced up, and he grabbed my hand, yanking me toward the dance floor before I could get a word in edge wise.

I felt one of Cas's hands on my hip, and he spun me to face him. When he buried his face in the crook of my neck, suddenly it wasn't him standing there anymore.

"Where do you think you're going, sweetheart?"

I shuddered violently, suddenly frozen to the ground where I stood. My body told me to get the hell away from him, but I couldn't move to reach for the dagger in my boot.

I couldn't even breath.

There was a wolf looking over me. Pulling me back against him. Teeth and fur and hands-Nonono. Don't move. One of them is near.

Dagger to the carotid artery and they bleed out in minutes.

My lungs constricted and I had to force down the knee-jerk reaction at having a wolf this close to me, knowing Cas had a very good reason for his actions.

Beneath solar plexus. Sever the  ascending aorta for instant death.

I nearly collapsed when he pulled back. "One of them was following you, sorry about that." He confirmed my thoughts, but I barely heard his words over the roaring of blood in my ears.

He moved back, looking up. "They're gone now, I think it was just a coincidence."

"Thanks." Somehow I forced the words from my mouth as I managed to bring myself back to the present. Not now. Please not now.