to get you help. Jacky, put the phone down and Change. Be ready.”
“Yes, sir.” I handed the phone to Jabari and nodded at Heath. I wanted him at my back. Needed it. I wanted to know we were both in our most powerful forms to defend ourselves.
We Changed at the same time with me finishing first.
“Father…she Changes so fast,” Jabari mumbled into the phone. “You told me, but every time I see it, I’m proud.”
“I know,” Hasan whispered. “Hold on, Jabari. We’re getting help.”
“She’s good…” Jabari said softly, groaning. Then he coughed, and I looked over, whining as I saw blood begin to go down his chin. He was deteriorating faster than he could heal, and his lung must have been punctured. I had missed it. He shook his head at me. “Stay focused. Tend to the wounded…after…the fight.”
“Fine. You’re going to heal at my place, though. You’re not leaving until I know you’re fully healed.” I was just beginning to find common ground with my brother. I wasn’t going to lose him now.
Heath growled deeply, staring off into the woods. I followed his line of sight and saw the problem.
The vampires were coming. We had Changed just in time.
32
Chapter Thirty-Two
I snarled as the Master of the Seattle nest stepped to the front of the pack of vampires coming toward us through the trees.
“Since you seem to have so much fight in you, I guess I have to soil myself to finish this,” he said with a dramatic sigh. “You should have just given me the heads and let it go. I won’t let my paradise be taken away from me and destroyed.”
“Warned you…” Jabari said as loud as he could. My heart ached. I wondered if the accident targeted him, being the strongest in the group. “Dead anyway for this.”
“Yes, I heard your warning. My nest and I will be long gone before your family comes to get their vengeance. I’m not scared of a grieving old man and his children.”
If I could have laughed, I would have. Idiot didn’t really understand who Hasan was, did he?
“Are you ready, Jacky?” Heath asked me softly. “We’re being surrounded.”
“I know.” I could hear them moving through the brush of the small forest around us. Smell didn’t matter for this fight. Even if there wasn’t a hulking piece of hot metal and fuel behind me, I wouldn’t have been able to smell them. I could only listen, and I was paying the utmost attention.
The Master of the nest waved a hand, and suddenly, they were coming at us. I jumped in front of Jabari, who was leaning against the SUV. It was only a couple of seconds later when one jumped on my back, and another came at my front. I snapped at it, only to feel the slice of something I wasn’t expecting to deal with.
“They have silver!” I screamed at Heath. I hoped Jabari heard. I hoped we weren’t going to die.
But fangs sunk into my feline back as I dodged the thrust of a silver sword, and I had a very bad feeling.
Until howls filled the air—lots of them.
I had heard a song like it once before when Heath and I fought off the traitors of the Dallas-Fort Worth werewolf pack.
The vampire biting on me pulled away, and I took my chance to snap at her, making contact with her thigh. I didn’t get the grab I wanted, but one would be limping a little now.
“Jacky! Look!” Heath ordered. A nose prodded my hip, and I turned, realizing everyone was standing still.
Through the trees, upwind of us, a pack of werewolves headed our way. One in the front lifted its head and howled as it ran, and the rest answered. I couldn’t take my eyes off it as the vampires faced their new adversaries.
The wave of wolves rolled into the battleground and began helping to tear the nest to pieces.
“Geoffrey?” Heath called out. I backed up to Jabari again, wanting to stay close to him. He needed my protection. I didn’t hear anything from the pack, but Heath stood close to me and watched the carnage unfold while keeping me up to date. “He heard the accident over the phone and started calling in everyone. They already had a small force prepared just in case, a typical procedure if a meeting goes sour.”
“Are they going to take out the entire nest?” I asked.
“Yes. This is considered an act of war against the North American Werewolf Council now. He already