Chapter 150

“I’M IN CHARGE! SO GET UP!”

The monster’s savage growls made me turn my head to catch the yellow flash of its eyes, closer than I would have liked.

I snapped my jaws, roaring in frustration, and left my father’s side to lash out again. The leopard-man avoided me and quickly climbed more than four meters high on the first tree he found, then threw himself at me from the air, twisting around himself with an elasticity and elegance that left my mouth open—until he hit me in the snout with his knee and dug his claws into my shoulders, climbing onto me as if I were a pole.

Kaylee searched desperately for her gun in the snow, scouring the ground with her gloved hands. She would have been alone in that if it weren’t for the fact that this time Mikhail attacked the leopard from behind, sinking his fangs into the back of its neck. My injured hip couldn’t withstand everyone’s weight and I collapsed, placing one knee on the ground. The leopard shook Mikhail off him by elbowin