Chapter 26
Kira had to be my top priority. I knew this even as the pack bond informed me that Gunner was fighting...and losing.
Meanwhile, shifters streamed past in the opposite direction, rushing to assist their alpha as the pack bond alerted them to Gunner’s fate. But they piled up in the doorway, frozen by the enforcer’s dominance and unable to set a single step inside.
Gunner, for his part, was being shredded and battered. Blood stung his/my eyeball as I experienced the pain right alongside him, and he limped to avoid putting pressure on his front left foot.
Still, Gunner fought with all the abandon of a werewolf protecting his partner even though I’d never overtly chosen him. “Hurry,” he suggested, the word warm in my belly. And I blinked back tears that blocked my vision, using m
