The courtyard was already slick with blood when the second wave hit. No warning. No roar of approach. Just impact—a hulking, six-limbed beast with skin like molten stone crashing through the outer wall, sending shards of rock spraying across the defenders.
“Hold the line!” Zack’s voice boomed, Alpha power laced with rage, but the sound barely carried over the ear-splitting shrieks of the creatures spilling in behind it. Their bodies twisted unnaturally mid-stride, magic warping their joints into killing machines.
Lilly was already moving, her wolf power snapping like lightning under her skin. She leapt over a crumpled Blood Fang guard, tearing through the neck of the first demon-thing that lunged for the Alpha. Bone gave way with a sickening crack, hot blood spraying her face. She didn’t
