"It''s about time that you started serving your purpose." This soft ethereal voice wraps around us. "I am done waiting for mindless,zy wolves toplete tasks." Several rogue wolves drop just outside the bubble.


    My mates move in closer to me, everyone of them has contact. The air gets warmer and I can''t feel the magic that is holding the barrier up. I don''t have control over it anymore. We are stuck here. It''s the tornado scenario all over again.


    I raise my hands letting all my anger and fear build in my palms then try to st through the barrier with a fire st. The mes just hit the ss like structure and glide along its edges, dispersing into the air. "Don''t try to leave or overpower me. You are not trained enough or strong enough to resist, pups. You do not belong in any form of power. You belong in my service. Your magic can be used so much better with the right guidance. You are here to be collected by me. The only way you will survive this is to leave with me."


    "That''s not gonna happen." Cam growls into the open air.


    "It''s not a choice child. Your little mate decided to share her gifts with you, so now I have to endure all four of you. It was a mistake to gift magic to wolves. So emotional, never thinking with their heads. Selene should not have shared our magic with your Goddess. It belongs to us. You are an abomination."


    "You were mated to a wolf and had a child that was a wolf. How can you say that?" I still don''t know where she is and I think that makes me more nervous. She could be miles away, tucked safely in another warehouse while we are fighting for our lives.


    "It was a weak attempt by Selene and the Moon Goddess to unite our kinds. To create bnce in magic. Even the child I was given was weak, but he could have been so much more with you and you could no follow the n that was set forth."


    A sharp tingle runs down my spine, she''s going to attack, I can feel it. I squeeze Cam and Oliver''s hands and lean back into Dakota behind me. The bubble is starting to crackle and spark. A low hum of chanting is starting, I''m not sure if it''s in my head or if they can all hear it, but I can''t seem to ask either. My mouth doesn''t work and my mindlink is stifled.


    The bubble around us shatters like ss, the humming grows louder and I can finally see someone approaching. Green smoke is billowing around her like an extension of her ornate dress. It surrounds us. The circumference is like a fence.


    The warriors closest to us start to drop. The ones in wolf form are gagging with their tongues hanging out writhing on the ground and the humans are grasping at their throats choking on no air. They can''t breathe and she hasn''t taken her eyes off of me. How is she doing that?


    "GET BACK! ALL OF YOU!" Gentry and Elena shout together.


    "Adrielle, stop this madness." Gentry pleads.Copyright N?v/el/Dra/ma.Org.


    Finally, someone with a voice. No one hesitates to listen though, dragging themselves and each other past the border of green smoke. I thank every higher power that is out there. The suffocation seems to leave them the further away they are from us. I''m not sure if they could cross back in if they wanted to. She''s isting us from everyone, but as long as the pack is safe, it''s fine. We can deal with this. I can deal with


    this.


    Even her own wolves were affected and had to leave the space. They are milling about patrolling the perimeter, no longer fighting, but curious to what is happening. None of them seem like they n on shifting to human form though.


    My dad and Niks look panicked on the outside of the barrier watching their mates fight and they are powerless to help.


    "You are a traitor to all witches." Adrielle spits at Gentry and looks away from us for the first time. "You choose to protect these mongrels, these pets."


    I try to adjust my muscles, but I don''t want to move from my mates. I think once we break contact I won''t be able to get it back. The slight shift was all Adrielle needed to focus back to me though.


    "Skr!" Elena shouts as Adrielle takes a deep breath and lets out this slow hissing sound and a shimmering aura sts out of her ripping my mates from me and tossing them out of the barrier, leaving Gentry Elena and I.


    met


    I am shaking with fear, but I don''t look away from her. She continues to move towards me. Gentry and Elena stay put but continue to murmur encouragement to me. can''t understand it but I can feel it. The hairs on the back of my neck are standing up. Whatever they are doing it''s calming. I am the only one that Adrielle wants, she won''t let anyone closer.


    "That moron thought he could siphon off your magic, as did his father and grandfather with all your ancestors. They thought they could just take it, like a jacket, because they wanted it. Killing both witches and wolves to gain power. And your Goddess and mine decided to force me into mating with that filth. He didn''t want a mate, he wanted to control magic."


    "Why help him then? Why let him do the things he did? So many people could still be alive."


    "Because I saw the prophecy. It was given to me. You would be a hybrid, a true hybrid of our kinds with powers beyond anything we have ever seen. The one who mated with you would gain those powers as well. But the prophecy did not show your mate because you would be allowed to choose."