Succumb (ON HOLD) (Being edited)

Chapter 6

I really like this chapter.  Not only does it show her true character, if a little enhanced for reasons I'm not saying, but we get to see how Gunter - the alpha - reacts towards her.  I will say that she's acting so... energetic because of her injuries.  A little trait her people has - a dangerous one.

Hope you enjoy reading it!

Chapter 6

I hid behind the car, hastily telling Cam to get away from the window to avoid being seen.  He reluctantly complied, but not before spewing warnings to me about the she-wolf’s state of mind.  Apparently she was rampaging on a raging need for revenge; she wanted my blood on her hands, to be exact.

She approached from the same corner I’d followed, her nose lifted as she traced my scent.  I saw no need to hide myself – she would smell me anyway.

I stood up from behind the car and her angry eyes immediately fixated on me.  Her lip lifted into a snarl and she hunched her back into an offensive crouch.

Pulling my mouth into a smirking smile, I stepped from the car and stood in front of it, resting my small hands on my flaring hips.  I composed my body language to look relaxed and confident, a powerful strategy in controlling an incoming fight.

“You’re awake.” The woman’s voice was soft but ragged.  She was holding her grief tightly within herself, channelling it into anger to release it.  I didn’t need Cam to tell me that.

“Yes.” My tone implied that I wasn’t too worried about my situation, which I wasn’t.  “It was a nice nap.  Haven’t had one in ages.” Never the more true, that statement.

Her eyes narrowed as she took me in, from my eased body-language to my state of undress.  “Your injuries are healed, then?”

I cocked my head to the side and pretended to think about it.  I grinned at her, flashing my straight, white teeth.  “Healthy as a horse.”  Which was exactly how I was going to catch Cam.  I chuckled at my own inside joke.   Cam caught hold of the stray thought, and before he could remember his previous warnings about danger, he burst out.

I am not jumping on a horse’s back!

It’ll be my back, I retorted.

It’ll still hurt like hell!

Considering that he was male, he had a point.  I grinned briefly.

The she-wolf growled at me and I waved my hand at her nonchalantly.  “Sorry, not laughing at you.  You wouldn’t understand.” She couldn’t know I could turn into a horse, of course.

She tensed, her pretty blue eyes flashing and lightening.  She gave a shiver as she fought to control her wolf.  I watched her curiously, tapping my finger against my lips.

“You come to see me off?  A hug goodbye would be nice.”

Stop taunting her, Cam growled.

No.

“I’m here to kill you,” she gritted out, taking a step forward.

“Really?  Must be a deadly hug.  No, I’m fine in that perspective, thank you.  I’m in a hurry, though.”

“How inconvenient for you,” she spat out.  “You come here and ruin everything.  You killed my brother!  And you don’t even regret it!”

I pursed my lips, my amusement slipping.  “A casualty of war, unfortunately.  Sorry for your loss.” I meant it.  I was trained to kill when I had to, but that didn’t mean I didn’t mourn those lives that were lost.