NEWBORN: Book One of the Newborn Trilogy (45 page)

The werewolf is murderous. “It’ll be a
painful death for him!”

I’m about to respond when I hear something. A
voice in the distance: “Find them! Bring me the wizard!” The voice
is loud and booming, the kind that instantly demands authority, and
I recognize it at once.

“Mortimer,” Wolf breathes, his expression
deadly.

“The scent of werewolf,” another one yells,
closer this time – a male. “Just picked it up, sire! They’re this
way!”

I gasp the forest air as Mortimer yells,
“After them! They’ve ruined our home! Bite them! Kill them!”

I’m gazing into a stony russet face. “We have
to run, Wolf!”

“I just promised you revenge.”

Stealing myself, I reach out and take his
hand. “Not now. Not yet. There’s too many of them, they’d overrun
you. I want revenge against Jack, I
really
do, but not in
exchange for your life!” Black eyes bore into mine, looking for
judgment. I breathe, “Run away with me.”

“I see them!” yells a voice.

Whirling around, I see Seamus – the young
male vampire I’d seen at the compound – pointing at us from fifty
yards away.

He yells, “They’re here, they’re here! Sire!
Amoretta! They’re here!”

Now
my
eyes are pleading. “Run away
with me!”

Wolf exhales his answer. “Fine then.”

We run for it.