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Authors: Celeste Anwar
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taking her with them and using her to find out where they were. His worst fear had been realized.
A howl spilled from his throat, answered by Dante and Lucas. The eerie call was enough to send anyone other than a simple mind into sheer panic.
They burst through the line of jungle, onto the beach, fangs dripping with saliva, fury rolling inside.
The men holding her down looked up, screamed in terror, raised rifles to defend themselves.
The bullets could barely slow their beasts down. Zach launched into the man pinning Jasmine to the sand, ripping into his throat and killing him instantly.
As the blood tinged the air, their minds were taken over by the kill, the urge to taste blood and destroy everything in their path.
The soldiers never stood a chance.
Around him, screams of pain broke the dawn air.
Seeing her caught and held against her will by the bastards who’d been tormenting him for months filled him with inhuman fury. Barely pausing to make sure she was alive, he returned to battle, biting and clawing, killing everyone in his path. Dimly, he recognized Dante’s and Lucas’ howls and growling as they left no one alive and allowed no one to escape.
Slowly, with their enemies conquered, the change reversed as their human minds took back control. Sometimes, it seemed easier than others to regain control. Perhaps it was the stage of the moon that allowed them an easier time of it. Perhaps it was because they were settling into their new role in life.
Zach didn’t pause to think long over it, only feeling relief when his hands were his hands, though blood covered every inch of him.
He moved to where Jasmine had been laying in the sand, but she was no longer there.
For a brief moment, panic seized him, and then he saw her heading back into the jungle. “Jasmine!” he yelled.
She stopped and spun around, running back to him. She’d managed to pull her torn shirt back on.
“Thank god it’s you!” she yelled, colliding with him and holding him tight. “Those men, they were going to take me back to your prison! They kept asking me where you were, but I didn’t know! I tried to fight them off, but there were too many of them. And then these fucking wolves came out of nowhere and killed everyone. I didn’t know what else to do but run! We’ve got to go before those animals come back and eat us alive! There are dead bodies everywhere!”
Zach held her tight. “Nothing is going to get us, Jasmine.”
She tightened her arms, looking wildly around. “How the hell would you know? You didn’t see it happen. It was insane.”
Behind him, he recognized the silent approach of Dante and Lucas. They were breathing heavily from the fight still surging their blood. He knew he might as well divulge the truth to her now, rather than try to hide anything from her. “We were the monsters. The wolves.”
She pulled back, looking up at him, confusion etched across her face. “What do you mean? You can’t mean…not those things. That’s not possible.”
“It is, Jasmine,” Lucas said from behind. “It’s why we tried to leave you alone, to protect you from the truth. We’ve been…changed. Infected.”
They could see that she didn’t believe them. Who would?
Zach gave her a shake, knocking the misty look off her face. She focused on him, light dawning in her eyes.
“How? How can you be animals?”
Zach sighed. “We caught a virus in the jungle of Cuba picking up a drone. We don’t know if it was intentional or not. It was fast acting, whatever it was. Before we could reach pickup, the change was on us, and we had no control over what happened after that. We changed others along with us. They managed to subdue us with enough bullets to take us prisoner and we’ve been held in a prison facility ever since while they experimented on us, seeing what it takes to wound and kill us.”
Jasmine pulled away from him, covering
A howl spilled from his throat, answered by Dante and Lucas. The eerie call was enough to send anyone other than a simple mind into sheer panic.
They burst through the line of jungle, onto the beach, fangs dripping with saliva, fury rolling inside.
The men holding her down looked up, screamed in terror, raised rifles to defend themselves.
The bullets could barely slow their beasts down. Zach launched into the man pinning Jasmine to the sand, ripping into his throat and killing him instantly.
As the blood tinged the air, their minds were taken over by the kill, the urge to taste blood and destroy everything in their path.
The soldiers never stood a chance.
Around him, screams of pain broke the dawn air.
Seeing her caught and held against her will by the bastards who’d been tormenting him for months filled him with inhuman fury. Barely pausing to make sure she was alive, he returned to battle, biting and clawing, killing everyone in his path. Dimly, he recognized Dante’s and Lucas’ howls and growling as they left no one alive and allowed no one to escape.
Slowly, with their enemies conquered, the change reversed as their human minds took back control. Sometimes, it seemed easier than others to regain control. Perhaps it was the stage of the moon that allowed them an easier time of it. Perhaps it was because they were settling into their new role in life.
Zach didn’t pause to think long over it, only feeling relief when his hands were his hands, though blood covered every inch of him.
He moved to where Jasmine had been laying in the sand, but she was no longer there.
For a brief moment, panic seized him, and then he saw her heading back into the jungle. “Jasmine!” he yelled.
She stopped and spun around, running back to him. She’d managed to pull her torn shirt back on.
“Thank god it’s you!” she yelled, colliding with him and holding him tight. “Those men, they were going to take me back to your prison! They kept asking me where you were, but I didn’t know! I tried to fight them off, but there were too many of them. And then these fucking wolves came out of nowhere and killed everyone. I didn’t know what else to do but run! We’ve got to go before those animals come back and eat us alive! There are dead bodies everywhere!”
Zach held her tight. “Nothing is going to get us, Jasmine.”
She tightened her arms, looking wildly around. “How the hell would you know? You didn’t see it happen. It was insane.”
Behind him, he recognized the silent approach of Dante and Lucas. They were breathing heavily from the fight still surging their blood. He knew he might as well divulge the truth to her now, rather than try to hide anything from her. “We were the monsters. The wolves.”
She pulled back, looking up at him, confusion etched across her face. “What do you mean? You can’t mean…not those things. That’s not possible.”
“It is, Jasmine,” Lucas said from behind. “It’s why we tried to leave you alone, to protect you from the truth. We’ve been…changed. Infected.”
They could see that she didn’t believe them. Who would?
Zach gave her a shake, knocking the misty look off her face. She focused on him, light dawning in her eyes.
“How? How can you be animals?”
Zach sighed. “We caught a virus in the jungle of Cuba picking up a drone. We don’t know if it was intentional or not. It was fast acting, whatever it was. Before we could reach pickup, the change was on us, and we had no control over what happened after that. We changed others along with us. They managed to subdue us with enough bullets to take us prisoner and we’ve been held in a prison facility ever since while they experimented on us, seeing what it takes to wound and kill us.”
Jasmine pulled away from him, covering
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