The All Consuming: A Shifter MC Novel (Pureblood Predator MC Book 4) by May Ellis Daniels Read Free Book Online

into the iron bars. “The coward’s ignoring your blood challenge—”
    The Purebloods caged beneath me howl and scream and roar, my strength feeding them. They hear my power and recognize the Dog God’s weakness. Realize the challenge has gone unanswered.
    Another half inch and I’m free. My wolf bites and claws at my insides, his fury gutting me.
    The Dog God puts his clawed hands on my bloodmate’s cheeks. Lily struggles against him, but he’s too strong. He plants a long kiss on her lips, and when they part I see my bloodmate’s lips are bleeding.  
    “He’s taunting you!” Vuk yells. “Daring you to break free. You’re nothing, Aaron. A weak sack of shit. A Skin. A—”
    A restless wave ripples through the Dog God’s pack.  
    He lets go of Lily and whirls to face them.
    A few of the dogs in front snarl and spit at their master.  
    He takes a startled step away.
    The dogs press around the dais, baring their fangs.
    “It’s natural law” Vuk cackles. “Weakness is death! Cowardice is death! They’ll force their alpha to meet your challenge or they’ll tear him apart.”
    I scent it now.  
    The Dog God’s uncertainty. His hesitation.  
    Fucker’s lived like a king in this world. Spoiled. Coddled. Never known real pain. Never been challenged by a mad-as-fuck Pureblood predator.
    The dogs begin nipping at one another. They sense the chaos about to erupt. Know the hierarchy that’s ruled their lives is crumbling, and in their panic they’re turning on one another.
    The Dog God’s trapped between meeting my challenge and having his pack turn on him. Vuk’s right. The pack will not tolerate weakness from its alpha. It demands leadership. Action above all else. Or death.
    The Dog God glares across the shifting black sea of his rabid pack. Then he snatches the nearest dog, brings the struggling creature to his jaws, tears its throat out and tosses the still living animal into the pack. The dogs pounce on their wounded kin in a blood hungry feeding frenzy.  
    “Blood,” Vuk whispers. “Blood and death and power.”
    Fuck him. The bug-eyed sack of shit rapist.
    I’ll deal with him later.  
    Because right now the Dog God turns to me. Flashes me a thin smile. Then the bastard strikes Lily again, and this time his claws rake across her naked chest, leaving a long, bloody wound just below her neck—
    Several things happen at once.  
    The iron bars give and I’m leaping onto a small ledge, a thousand feet of air beneath me—
    Lily falls back, her eyes wide, and while the Dog God laughs and turns to face the Cliff of Cages Lily kicks out and wraps one of her chains around the Dog God’s neck—
    The rabid dogs part and a large circle forms and then I’m scrambling down the mountainside, knocking rocks down, passing the cages of my imprisoned packmates, every one of them doomed to be fed to the Dog God’s pack, and they’re raging as well, calling my name, the One We Answer To, and then I leap to the ground and my feet crunch into the rocky red soil and I’m sprinting at the dead motherfucker, my fury beyond all reckoning, my mind a red fog of kill-lust—
    Lily leaps on the Dog God’s back and tries to strangle him with the chain. He reaches back and tears at her hair, then flings her to the ground. Her head smashes into the stone dais and she lies still, her eyes closed—
    The Dog God flicks the chain off his neck and hops from the dais.  
    My son is behind him. Alone on the dais.  
    A few of the rabid dogs slink forward for a sniff, and all it would take—
    I cut the thought short.  
    There’s only now. This single, glorious moment of blood.
    A set of black feathered wings spring from the Dog God’s back. His bones shift and reshape and he bulks up fucking big-time and then he shakes his massive head so fast it’s a blur, and when he slows I’m racing toward a slobbering monster with three snarling Doberman heads. Long, narrow snouts lined with vicious teeth. Each head as large as