He is Ghost

Proud

"Neira!"

Judd was screaming her name, trying anything he could to break through to her while her half-formed claws were closing around his throat. There was a blank look in her eyes. A quiet vacancy that freaked him the hell out. There was a knee on either side of his body, the weight of her pressing him into the mattress as she tried and tried again to kill him.

He had fallen asleep next to her, the smooth breathing of his marked lulling him into a place of quiet. He couldn't ignore it; how good it felt to hear the sound of a calm sleeping female under his arm. That was if it hadn't bitten him in the ass.

"Neira," he growled loudly, using his arm to push against her.

She didn't answer; the heat was too far in her head. Neira was benched while the main player in this game took another lunge at his throat.

Fucking heat.

Judd snapped his teeth back at her, hoping to catch her off guard. It didn't work. She just snarled down at him with a murderous rage. The vacancy was ebbing away and, in its place, formed a full-fledged alpha female with very unsavoury intentions.

Oh, he did not want to do this again, bite her and deal with the repercussions - her repercussions. He didn't like it any more than she did so she could shut the fuck up about it all. If she weren't so fucking proud, they wouldn't be in this mess. If Sada hadn't begged him, he wouldn't be in this mess.

Sada and her bleeding heart.

It wasn't like she was some small regular female who could have easily been helped by anyone. No, she had to be an alpha female with a stubborn head and a proud heart.

Not for the first time, Judd wondered if he had bitten off more than he could chew.

She snapped down at him, and suddenly he had enough of the negotiations. His hand moved from where he was holding her back by the shoulder to wrap around a clump of her dark hair. He yanked it to the side and her head along with it. She yelped as her body hit the mattress next to him.

That was all it took for him to gain the upper hand. He was on top of her in the next second.

She had other ideas.

Neira rolled, bucking him off as she went and a foot went flying, nailing him in the crown jewels. Judd's eyes went wide as his fingers released her flesh only to cradle his balls.

Neira was standing in the next moment, feet on the floor and facing away from him. She turned, ready to lunge back at him and finish the job.

He groaned and pinched his eyes closed. Fucking cheap shot. Cheap, cheap shot.

She didn't get the chance. She shifted, pain lancing her face before she fell to the ground a wolf. Neira whimpered, shaking her pelt trying to rid her body of the pain. She shifted human again, her body lying on the floor in a heap as a scream left her throat. Her fingers clawed at her legs, arms - anywhere that flesh roamed.

In this second, he was momentarily forgotten. Judd could only watch her tear herself apart. She had forgotten he was here, and that gave him the advantage. She shifted again, the wolf whining on the floor.

He watched the wolf shake and shudder on the floor until she finally turned back into a woman. Her naked body was shaking, unable to hold the pain much longer. He was hit with a sense of deja vu. He momentarily flashed back, to another cabin, another female tearing herself apart on the floor. For a moment he couldn't tell the difference between what was then and what was now.

He clamped a hand around the back of her throat.

Neira was still for only a second before she erupted into chaos.