Chapter 82. Prey

I crawl backward, trembling in instant fear because I know this is a matter of fight or die, and I need to be stronger than I was ten minutes ago. He almost ended me so easily with one swipe that it’s pathetic.

Call myself Luna? I’m a complete failure.

I need to get my head together and outsmart him while my body tries to heal, give myself time to power up. I steady my breathing, willing all the energy I can muster up to save me from him, and homing in on the part of me I rarely have to use. It just means he has to get close for me to absorb what he has when I’m this low, to draw from his strength instead of my own, and it may be more useful than energy balls which seem to be failing me.

Colton’s fast, even by Lycan standards, and I get up in a dash to backward run in an attempt to coax him to me and almost get decapitated in the process as a new clawed paw tries to take my head off.

I don’t think so, bitch!

Carmen’s sassy voice in the link rings throug