ASH
Nothing else existed; there was only to get to her. Not the defenders charging me, not the agony from scores of cuts, not the reason in my mind telling me that this was insanity. Only Lena mattered. Just rescuing her from the evil that had addled her brain.
Then through the next, barely conscience of his scream as my claws turned his neck into a red grin. They should fear me. They should know that I will do anything to get to my mate.
"Lena!" I bellowed, my voice rippling across the field of battle. "I'm coming! Hold on!"
I would see her now, in among this struggling throng. In the middle of the grand hall, shining with so much power my eyes ached to stare at them. But it was her. My Lena. The woman I had loved from babyhood, the mate that fate had thrust upon me.
And surrounding
