7
The Hunter’s Vengeance
Thalaea was knocked to her side by a large, angry Minae. Something hit her hard on the head and her vision went fuzzy; desperately she tried to crawl away but her attacker straddled her waist, pinning her in place.
“b***h,” he growled at her, and she didn’t need his scent in her nostrils to know it was Kaz the hunter.
She felt some of her old bravado come back, though she could barely see and her head hurt something fierce. She looked up at him and bared her teeth. “That’s Alpha b***h to you,” she said. She caught movement to her side, but couldn’t figure out what it was quickly enough to block the punch. She tasted blood — her own, this time.
His hands were on her throat, then, and he was choking the life from her. Thalaea gasped for breath but none came. In
