“I did,” she replied and looked down at her human arms. “The only thing that changed was my vision…and I feel stronger.”
“Evan,” he whispered. Grabbing her arms, he swung her around to face him. “Lizzie, you’re immortal like a vampire. He should have told you, but we don’t have time to argue. Your body is recognizing your vampire traits. You’re fast, and your strength will break bones. They won’t see you coming.”
“No.” She shook her head. “That’s not possible.”
He lowered his head to meet her gaze. “He bit you and willed you to survive because he’s dead. He imposed his will for you to live because he could. He has a direct link to you.”
“They aren’t real,” she argued back, yanking her arms free. “I don’t drink blood, and what about the sun?”
“I don’t have time to explain. Just trust me.” He glanced back around the tree. “Shit. Twenty yards and closing.”
He took her arm again. “He can hear you if you call to him in your mind. That’s how he knows when you’re in trouble. You’ve been doing it all along.”
Within seconds, Colton shifted into his grizzly and lifted to stand on his hind legs. His roar shook the ground, pulling her back into the coming fight.
“I’m going to kill you, Evan,” she screamed in her mind, hoping to hell that she gave the asshole a headache.
Elizabeth balled her fist when the first wolf took flight, jumping to attack Colton head-on. She sprang into a run and caught him mid-air, squeezing his mid-section. She heard his bones crack before she tossed him to the side. Fast was an understatement. She’d barely just blinked and had the wolf between her arms. Her strength rivaled that of her dragon, and better yet, she had arms instead of wings. She didn’t see the downside of being a vamp, at least not yet.
The others snarled, the saliva dripping from sharp teeth as they paced, looking for an opening to attack. She watched them, keeping her back to Colton. They wouldn’t get to him, not if she had anything to say about it.
In a choreographed move, all five of the assholes but one jumped on her at once. Mouths clamped down on her skin as she yanked one away, throwing it into a tree, and the rest were tearing at her skin. She screamed. Using all of her strength to yank and pull, breaking two of the mutt’s jaws, she tossed them aside. Blood covered her body, oozing from her wounds. Her strength was failing, and she fell to her knees, and that’s when she saw Horace step out in his wolf form from behind the nearest tree. His yellow eyes glared at her, his snout shaped into a growl, giving her a menacing glimpse of his fangs. He leapt at her at the same time as the others, and Colton barreled into him, swatting him to the ground.
