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and Thane couldn’t stand it. He was no innovator like his brother. He let you kill Gavril and did nothing to stop you. His own blood brother.”
    Kalena saw tears pooling in Illene’s eyes and it looked like the woman would cry.
    “Illene…Gavril murdered his parents. You know that, right?”
    “Why bring that up?” she shouted, her eyes bulging. “They favored one son over the other because of circumstances. They treated Gavril like an illegitimate child because he couldn’t shift. You have no idea what it feels like to be…so…different. Gavril’s parents deserved death. I was the one who nurtured Gavril all those years they cast him aside. He could have been anything he wanted. Anything! And you both killed him…so both of you will die. There will be no surprise bonding ceremony. I want you both in the ground.”
    Illene growled and her body began to rumble uncontrollably. The whole situation was like deja vu to Kalena as she realized that Illene was about to shift. But into what? A wolf? Or a beast?
    Kalena grabbed her gun and aimed it. She was tired of this. Tired of having to choose between life and death for herself…and for someone else.
    Illene laughed hysterically as her body began to shape and morph into something ugly and animalistic. The sharp tone carried through the living space like an echo.
    “Shoot it!” one of the maids yelled out.
    Before Kalena could follow through, the beast slapped the gun out of her hand and it landed on the floor more than six feet away.
    One of the maids dived for the gun. The beast lunged and clawed the innocent woman across the back, and she stayed down.
    Without a weapon to subdue the beast, Kalena was pretty much toast. There were more guns in the storage ottoman in the next room, but she had to get to them first.
    The beast was clumsy and slow, but she was big enough to eat up the distance to get to Kalena. The beast barreled into her and pushed her forcefully into the wall. Kalena’s teeth rattled in her mouth and she tasted blood as she bit her tongue.
    Eyes as black as coals stared at her. Kalena barely recognized Illene in there. It was like the beast had taken over completely.
    Kalena saw fireflies and blinding light. Sparks of red and black. Everything would be okay because she knew her babies were out of harm’s way. Nothing else mattered.
    One minute it felt like the air was being squeezed right out of Kalena, forcing her to give up. In the next, a gust of cold air whizzed across her. The beast was no longer holding her to the wall.
    She opened her eyes at the very same moment Thane clawed the beast in the gut.
    The beast squealed, nearly shattering every piece of glass around them.
    Kalena grabbed the wall and panted furiously as her lungs refilled with air.
    Streams of blood cascaded down Thane’s arm where he had punctured through the beast’s gut. The beast shook violently until fur retreated and soft creamy skin began to expose itself again. Illene emerged once more as the beast faded away.
    A horde of other bodies had rushed into the home. A mix of vampires and wolves. Kalena didn’t bother to identify any of them as she watched Illene let go of her beast and become a weak, docile woman.
    “What are you?” she asked Thane.
    “What does it matter?” Thane replied.
    “Vampire…” Her lips parted and her eyes fluttered as if she would faint from the revelation.
    “I am no longer inferior. Don’t you see what greatness Gavril has achieved?”
    “No, but I will see,” he said and grabbed her neck. “The truth…”
    “No…” Illene shook her head, quickly. “You can’t bite me.”
    “I died once over this,” Thane said. “No more.”
    Illene’s clothes were in rags about her body and she struggled against Thane’s iron-clad grip. His fangs doubled in length as he held her several feet off the ground. She gasped right before Thane sunk his fangs deep into her shoulder.
    Illene’s feet kicked defiantly about as Thane drank her