Chapter 231


    Chapter 0231


    Terry motioned to the men around him, and they began toe closer.


    With a growl, Nichs, in full wolf form, pounced from the dark of the tunnel and tackled two of the ment


    closest to me at once.


    I had never seen him in his wolf form before, but I knew at once it was him. The dark brown fur was the


    same color as his hair, and those golden eyes flecked with green were unmistakable. As was his fierce.


    protection of me.


    With two men out, that still left four on their feet, as well as Terry and Jane. In the distance, I spotted


    Julian, sneaking behind every one. Footsteps wereing closer through the hallways. Backup, maybe.


    Julian closed and locked the door with a deft and silent hand.


    No one noticed at all until some of the men outside began pounding on the door to get in.


    “Julian!” Terry snapped.


    Julian shrugged. “You didn’t think we’d let here alone, did you?”


    “Then this must be Nichs,” Terry said, gesturing wildly at Nichs’s wolf form.


    Nichs moved directly in front of me, growling lowly.


    “Don’t just stand there, get them!” Terry urged the four men still standing. “Isn’t that what you are here.


    for? To do as Imand?”


    The men seemed uncertain for a moment, ncing at each other. But then, they all nodded, one after


    the next.


    One unsheathed a knife, and lunged for Nichs. Nichs pounced, meeting him halfway. He closed his


    jaws around the man’s wrist and wrenched the knife away. It ttered across the ground near Jane’s


    feet.


    Jane leaned down and scooped it up. Then she darted forward at a fast pace. I was worried that she was


    going for Nichs, so I moved as well, to intercept. I realized toote, she was actuallying for


    me.She mmed me up against the barred walls of one of the cages and held the knife to my throat.


    I could have fought against her. Nichs and I hadn’t trained for this exact situation, but some of the


    moves he showed me would have surely helped. If my life was at stake, he wanted me to y dirty.


    Yet, even as angry and heartbroken as I was over my sister’s betrayal, when I looked at her, I saw that


    pig-


    She was an enemy. She wanted to hurt me.


    But I couldn’t raise my hand against my twin sister.


    “You are weak, Piper. You’ve always been weak. Undeserving of the strong wolf you carried,” Jane said


    with a snarl.


    Behind her, Nichs fought off two more men. Julian knocked out a third, with a swift unsuspecting


    strike to the back of his head.


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    “Do you


    have any idea what it felt like, to constantly be in your shadow? To watch you receive opportunity after


    opportunity simply because your wolf was stronger?” Jane’s voice was tightening, raising. Her hand


    holding the knife trembled. “You didn’t deserve it! None of it!”


    I watched her in shock. All those years, she’d only ever seemed happy for me. “You can’t mean this…”


    “Can’t I? I got my vengeance. I destroyed your life once. I’ll be damned before I let you crawl your way


    back to the top.”


    Jane pressed the knife to my throat, I pressed as far back against the cell as I could.


    “You are nothing.” Jane said. “I will take everything from you once again.”


    “W–why?” I asked, barely able to find my voice.


    She dipped her face down, and peered up at me from under her brow. Like this, she looked menacing


    and evil. Nothing like the girl I knew and loved.”


    Coldly, she said, “Because I want to.