“I’m not the one who was slashed.”
“But you’re the one they want to capture and do unspeakable things to.” He closes his eyes. “Cami, you know we’re not going to let it happen, right? You’re our omega. We’d die before we’d let anything hurt you.”
“Please don’t say that.” My eyes fill with tears. “Do you think that, just because I’m an omega, I’m content to sit back and be taken care of? Do you think it’s not going to destroy me if something happens to you because of me? How can you think it would be reassuring to tell me you’d die for me? What do you think I’m so afraid of?”
Ryan reaches out and pulls me to him. Carefully avoiding his wound, I lean my head on his shoulder. He’s so warm. I feel so safe here. If anything happens to any of them, I don’t know how I’ll go on.
“The plan isn’t good enough, is it?” I ask him quietly. “Luka and Jack aren’t powerful enough to fight off five wolf shifters.”
“No,” Ryan says, “they aren’t. I think the plan we came up with is the best one we could hope for, but I don’t think there’s any plan that would give them good odds of survival in this fight. Two bears just isn’t enough.”
“If you could get into the fight, would that change things? Truly?”
“I think it would,” he says. “I think three would be enough. Particularly if one of us could manage to distract the wolves long enough for the other two to make a move.” He sighs. “If only Jack hadn’t ordered me to stay behind. Even with me injured, not at full strength, I think we’d all stand a better chance with three of us in the fight.”
I breathe deeply, trying to stay calm, but my mind is racing. There must be a way out of this. There must be something we can do to survive. I have to figure it out before I lose another family to the wolves.
