Free to Love (The Tribe MC: Chase of Prey Book 3) by Heather West Read Free Book Online Page B

at him.
    Cara ran in, the spell already flashing from her fingers. Silver light cascaded across Gregory’s furry body. She had expected it to slow him down, but he simply shook his head and continued his standoff with Sebastian.
    Something was wrong! Gregory should have been injured by that spell! She shot another one at him just as he leapt towards Sebastian, but it was just as ineffectual. Gregory’s paws slammed into Sebastian’s broad chest and he took them both onto the ground.
    “Sebastian!” The scream turned her throat raw and sore. She ran toward Sebastian, desperate to help. One whole side of his face was covered in blood; Gregory’s claws had caught Sebastian in the temple before streaking down his face to his jawline.
    Sebastian kicked Gregory in his soft belly and Gregory let out a grunt of pain. Sebastian managed to get himself into a half–seated position and kicked again, landing a hard blow on the beast’s shoulder. The silver spurs and chains on Sebastian’s boots should’ve inflicted more damage, but Gregory was relentless.
    Weeping and angry, frightened and determined not to let anything happen to the man she loved, Cara shot another spell at Gregory. He merely shook his head again, then his muzzle lowered. He bit down on Sebastian’s leg, hard, savagely shaking his head from side to side. The sound of Sebastian’s jeans ripping and the sight of blood running down his leg and into the ground below him was horrifying. Gregory was killing him!
    Cara’s spells continued to bounce off Gregory as he drank Sebastian’s blood. Sebastian was in obvious pain and still trying to stand up, but his legs would not support him. Cara dropped down onto her knees beside him and held him, trying to figure out a way to get them both out of there.
    She had a dreadful feeling that if she let go of him he would die before she could get back to him. She knew she had no choice — if she was going to help him at all, she had to kill Gregory, but he seemed indestructible. He was half–Tribe and strong, too. Whatever magic she used against him, he seemed to have the ability to simply absorb it.
    Of course! Why hadn’t she thought of that? He was absorbing her magic and growing stronger! But how could she fight him without it?
    She had to fight him with violence. That was the only answer. Without her magic she was just a young woman, and she was pretty certain that she couldn’t overpower him.
    But she had to try.
    She took Sebastian’s silver knife. He resisted, but she pressed a fleeting kiss to his cheek and staggered to her feet. She was beyond tired and all the fighting that she had done had done nothing more than drain her and empower Gregory. It would’ve been laughable if it wasn’t so lethal.
    Gregory circled her. She lashed out with the knife and managed to slice off small section of his ear. Blood, dark burgundy and stinking, came from that incision, but it didn’t slow him down.
    Cara was sure that she was going to die, but she wasn’t sure if she even cared anymore. Sebastian was mortally wounded; if he died, her life would not be worth living anyway.
    Gregory lunged at her, his fangs coming within inches of her face. She managed to twist away just before he sank his teeth into her but he got close enough for her to smell his fetid breath. The odor made her gag, but she took advantage of his proximity, thrusting the knife into his soft belly. Gregory howled with pain and dropped to the earth, shifting back into his human form for a moment.
    He looked up at her, just a young boy with enormous eyes and a shock of hair that needed brushing. Her heart softened and she dropped her guard for a moment — and that was exactly what Gregory had wanted. He rose up again in full Wolf form, his pale flesh covered in matted, stinking fur.
    His claws sliced into her tender skin. Blood poured from her arm and she screamed. Tears of agony exploded from her eyes and she lashed out, kicking and punching wildly as he