maybe a year or two younger. Cara? I couldn’t be sure.
“Touch her, and you’re a dead man!” I bellowed.
Kahanov smiled. “The moment I summon the Soul Knife, I’ll sever her
spirit. So you get to choose: Savannah or her.?
?
“Save her, Jaxson,” Savannah said. “Save them all. Please.”
Her voice cracked with sadness, and the anguish and fear in her eyes was
like a dagger to my heart.
The world spun. I was alpha, and my duty to the pack came above all else
—but Savannah was my mate, and there was nothing I could do but protect
her.
My wolf thundered inside me. Kill him.
Mindless rage churned in my body, and I unleashed a primal roar as I
wrenched the roots from around my legs.
“Time’s up!” The Soul Knife disappeared from Savannah’s hand and
appeared in Kahanov’s. He rammed it through the woman’s chest, and a trail
of smoke rose from the dagger as he yanked it back. The woman’s sleeping
eyes shot wide, and her mouth opened in a silent scream.
Savannah’s cry of despair echoed through the chamber as she summoned
the blade back from Kahanov’s hand and began cutting frantically at the
roots.
The woman faded away, her body vanishing.
“No!” I roared as the roots snaked around my body and began squeezing
like a vise, slowly dragging me toward the wall. They cut into my skin, but I
couldn’t feel the pain through my shock and rage.
Kahanov began to warily approach. “Once, I thought that if I could teach
you to submit, you might be useful. But what kind of pathetic alpha are you?
One who’d put a single foolish girl above your whole…”
The sorcerer paused mid-step, and then started to laugh. “Oh, this is too
good. How did I not see it before? You two are fated! No wonder you’re