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gentleness was gone from her face as she wrenched the unlatched band from her arm and threw it across the room.
    “What the fuck ?” she snarled, teeth elongating into fangs, her face partially wolven. Fury dripped off of her in waves. Gabriel scrambled off the bed and she slammed into him, sending him sprawling. His head bounced off the plaster wall, sending a wave of stars cascading down around his vision. “You little fucker. You never wanted me in the first place!” She wrapped a clawed hand in his hair, yanking his throat back. Her lips twisted into a sneer. “This is about that bastard, Micah, isn’t it? Isn’t it?!” She slammed his head back again and he felt a scream rise in his throat.
    He lashed out, slapping her across the face, swiping nails across her cheek. She wrenched back and he stumbled out of reach, lurching for the door. “Hell no,” Reese sang out, grabbing the back of his shirt collar. She flung him off balance—right through the window. The glass shattered beneath his weight and he felt thousands of tiny shards cut through his skin. He screamed, unable to help it, praying Urban would come. Then he did the only thing he could think of: He forced himself to his feet and fled into the forest.
    Reese shrieked behind him, first a human wail that turned sick, then a snarl rose up. Gabriel’s shoes slapped the ground, pain racing through his body like a drug, but adrenaline made him strong. He didn’t dare look behind him—he could feel the pounding of her paws and his mind twisted, thinking of Jeremie’s hellhounds. He thought of their bodies pressed against him, their teeth at the back of his neck as they… No. No. “No!” he howled, pushing himself faster.
    He felt teeth snag his calf, catching on his pair of borrowed jeans. He lurched, stumbled, and hit the ground rolling. His legs came up to kick the massive red wolf off of him, but her fangs were merely inches from his face. Eyes pressing shut, he prayed to Halcion, that the Goddess might take him out of this world with very little pain and suffering. Please. Please…
    An explosion lit the air and Gabriel opened his eyes just in time to see Reese’s head explode in a crash of blood, bone, and brains, soaking him with crimson. Her body, now dead weight, jerked and twitched on top of him, a massive weight on his chest and Gabriel tried to breathe through the panicked tears that were burning his eyes. His entire body trembled as he feebly tried to push Reese’s wolf corpse off of him.
    Then he realized something urgent—the sun was sliding behind the tree line. It was almost dark. A sob caught in his throat just as he heard Urban’s voice: “Holyfuck. You alright, babe?”

Chapter Five

    His ears rang, thunderously loud though the forest was dead silent. Pressing his eyes shut for a moment’s time, he gathered himself and sprinted to Gabriel’s side. Pandora leapt in front of him, her paws thumping across the ground. She growled and he saw Gabe flinch, his eyes wide and fearful. He was trembling, blood smearing his face and neck, soaking his shirt.
    “You alright?” Urban asked again, kneeling next to him.
    Gabriel shivered. “Get her…” His arms were pressed against his chest, pinned there by the weight of the former Reese Callahan, minus a skull. Her head was a mass of fleshy ribbons and decimated bone. Pandora’s ears flattened as she hooked teeth into the wolf’s scruff, giving a tug. Slowly but surely, Reese slid to the ground and Gabriel lurched away, scrambling to his feet.
    “Easy! Easy, Gabe,” Urban cautioned, reaching for him. Gabriel’s eyes darted into the fading sunlight, to the darkness folding across the world. He swiped at his face, streaking blood across his arm, and then he stared at his crimson hands, unable to keep them from shaking. “Gabriel. Please, talk to me. Did she bite you?” Alarm reared up in his gut, twisting like a hurricane.
    Gabriel blinked, mouth dropping open. He hadn’t thought