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Selina warned.
    "Like hell he is."
    "No, Zev you don't understand. He doesn't care if you kill him. He's ready to fight to the death."
    "Then that's what he'll get."
    "Zev!" But he snapped the connection in half. Red rage was shimmering at the edge of his sight. How dare this loner challenge his alpha nature? How dare he threaten his mate? Zev rushed forward blindly, ready to tear out his throat.
    The challenger ducked at the last moment and Zev stumbled. His paw slipped on a root and suddenly he couldn't breath.
    "Zev!"
    The world was rapidly darkening. Zev shook himself, trying to tear himself free of the challenger's jaws, but the wolf had him firmly by the throat. Each struggle only sank his teeth further into his windpipe. The challenger meant to suffocate him right here.
    He could hear Selina's thoughts swirling in an indistinct panic around him. She was crying and screaming, but her words weren't making sense anymore. He felt his legs buckle, and his knees scraped the ground.

Chapter Ten
    Selina
    My body knew what to do.
    I only had to unshackle my mind.
    Get ahold of yourself, Selina , became LET GO.
    The sight of my mate in peril broke the last tether in my mind. When I screamed I felt my vocal cords thicken and the high-pitched shriek became a howl so loud my newly sensitive ears folded back on themselves. The howl reverberated through my growing body, adding strength and power to my limbs as I dropped to all fours and charged at our attacker.
    I leapt on him with my claws brandished and the force of the collision sent him reeling off of Zev. Tumbling over and over each other, we somersaulted down a small hill. The sticks and stones couldn't penetrate my thick hide, so all I needed to do was to hold on to him, gripping his flesh with my claws as I snapped and snarled at his neck. I aimed to snap his windpipe.
    We landed with a splash in a small creek. The shock of the cold water was still not enough to jar me loose from my grip. He was on top of me, flailing and growling and splashing in the water. My head ducked under for just a second and I reared back upward, sputtering and angry. In that moment I felt his angry, resentful thoughts. He aimed to kill me for what he saw as a betrayal. If he couldn't have a mate, no one could.
    He squirmed his paw free and smashed my head under the water.
    I opened my eyes in the green murky glimmer, trying to remember not to inhale. My wolf was panicked and spastic with rage. She wanted to howl in fear, but that would have drowned us both. I tried to think like a human, but the lack of air was quickly muddying my thoughts. My wolf and I were both starting to panic.
    The force of the blow from above was enough to send a shockwave of sound through the water. I reared up from the shallows, filling my lungs to the brim before I howled in anguish and fear. But there was nothing to fear anymore.
    Zev had leapt on our attacker from above. I stood up on my four legs just in time to see a mighty slash of his claws tear open the belly of the strange wolf. What was left of the human in me turned away at the sight of it, but I could not miss that the creek now ran bright red.
    "Selina!"
    "Zev, I'm okay, I'm okay." Zev's thoughts were a tornado of fear and anger. He was shimmering like he was about to shift when suddenly his desire hit me like a bolt out of the blue. His wolf came splashing through the water, but as he neared me the wolf diminished and disappeared into the man with the green eyes. I felt myself answer his shift, taking my human form again just in time for his lips to find mine.
    He snatched me up from the blood-red water and stepped up on to the creek bank. A spring flood had leveled the grass here, making a soft springing bed upon which he lay me.
    "You did well," he spoke. I didn't realize how odd it was to hear his voice until he said it. It felt so natural to have him in my mind.
    "You saved me," I stuttered, feeling like my tongue was too thick in my mouth. Speech felt