Lucy POV
Ace wouldn’t even let me in the car with Mitchell, instead forcing me in his while Tyson drove off with Mitchell. I felt sick with nerves of what would happen to him. I had no doubt that my mother would unleash hell on him, but hopefully my presence would deter her from hurting him. I knew Mitchell wasn’t lying, knew without a doubt.
Ace mumbled under his breath when he suddenly turned off going in a different direction from my parents house. “Ace, where are you going?” he doesn’t answer and just completely ignores me.
“Ace the packhouse is that way” I tell him, but he continued ignoring me until I grabbed the steering wheel and jerked the car. His growl bouncing off the windows.
“You aren’t going there, he deserves what he gets”
“Pull the fucking car over now” I scream at him, knowing him and Tyson were going to just hand him over to my mother and stepfather. They wouldn’t ask questions, they would just kill him.
“He betrayed you, he fucking deserves to die” Ace snarls. His anger was out of control. I knew he was mad but this, he wanted to hurt someone, he needed to hurt someone. His fingers white knuckled against the steering wheel.
“That’s not for you to decide, he is my friend, pull over Ace now so help my god I will”
“You’ll what? hate me? I can live with that and so can Tyson” He bellows. Fur starts growing on his arms as his anger becomes worse.
“Pull over, you said I could I go with him, you said I could help him”
“Yeah and that was a lie, we don’t want him near you, he deserves to die for helping Jamie”
“He did it for his mate”
“Bullshit, he just trying to save his own skin Lucy, open your fucking eyes, not everyone is your friend. He betrayed you, end of story”
“I reach for the handbrake, ripping it up and the car starts sliding before Ace corrects it before undoing the handbrake.
“Let me out, stop the car, Ace” I snapped at him.
“No, you’re staying with me” he says before flooring it. I am thrown back in my seat as he starts driving at alarming speeds.
“Ace slow down” I tell him as he hits a dip. My head hits the roof of the car and becomes airborne.
“Ace!” He laughs manically.
“What, are you scared Lucy?” He asks as I grip the seat.
“Yes now stop” I shriek as he turns around a bend to sharply the car sliding out.
“Fucking stop!” I scream.
“You scared?” He asks again.
“Yes, fucking yes, now slow down” I scream shutting my eyes.
“Please stop,” I beg him.
“I will when you stop taking his side”
“He is my best friend” I snap at him and he growls.
“He is a traitor! I hope my brother rips him to pieces for what he has done” Ace screams before punching the dash. A crack runs across it and his breathing increases in harsh breaths but the car slows down slightly.
“You took his side” He says and I say nothing.
“You attacked me for him” he seethes. I shake my head. Mitchell did nothing wrong, not in my eyes. He was protecting his mate. Ace growls and I could feel Atticus’s jealousy simmering in him, urging Ace to kill Mitchell.
“Please Ace take me to my parent’s” I ask him. I hated to think of what Tyson could be doing to him, I could feel Tyson’s anger just as hot as Ace’s.
“He won’t be there” Ace says before cursing under his breath.
“What do you mean?” I ask, my heart jolting in my chest, I should have known better than to let Tyson take him.
“I said he won’t be there, Tyson isn’t taking him back to your parents. He was turning around after we were out of sight and heading back home” Ace says.
“Turn around, I won’t let you hurt him”
“It’s done Lucy, Mitchell won’t be a problem anymore, you may trust him but we don’t” Ace says.
“Take me back Ace”
“No!” he snaps and panic rushes over me. Mitchell would be petrified, I won’t let him die over something I would have done if our roles were reversed. Why couldn’t they understand that, would their decision be different if they were in his shoes. The answer was no, they would do what they needed to get me back, the same as Mitchell.
“Turn around” I tell him one last time, I didn’t want to throw myself from a moving vehicle, the gravel rash would be a bitch. But I would if I needed to.
“No!” he growls out and forcing my hand. I toss the door open and Unclip my belt. Ace reached for me a second later, his fingers gripping my shirt but he was too late. I tossed myself out of the car. The road tearing at my clothes and skin, as I skidded and rolled across it. I hear the screeching of brakes as I finally come to a stop. Groaning, I roll on my back. Ah that hurt, I mutter to myself hauling myself upright.
“Lucy!” Ace roars in panic and I force myself upright staggering. I start limping and Ace growls.
“Stop Lucy” Ace snaps but I ignore him. Sucking in a breath I start running before hearing Ace roar behind me and hear his bones snapping. Looking behind me I see Atticus and I shriek, taking off like my ass was on fire and heading back home.
10 minutes, I could make it in 10 minutes. I moved in a blur and hit a tree with my shoulder as I zipped through the forest. I was faster than a werewolf but I was also pretty banged up and I could hear Ace gaining on me, yet I kept running refusing to look back as he chased me.
Atticus, fuelled by his anger, launches at me just as I reach the driveway of the packhouse. I see Tyson’s car parked and could hear fighting and gurgling cries. My heart skips a beat when I am thrown forward in the gravel. Atticus landed on top of me. I feel his teeth dig into my shoulder as he bites me, making me scream. I roll, punching him in the side of the head. He shakes his head baring his teeth at me in warning but I lift my knees under him before kicking him off. He snaps at me but I roll quickly to see Mitchells beaten and bloody naked body tossed into the side of Tyson’s car. His body is lying limp and I see Tyrant stalking towards him. I scream, slipping on dirt as I race toward Tyrant and Mitchell. My scream was deafening and Tyrant looked at me in surprise before turning back to Mitchell to deliver the lethal bite.
“NOOOO!” I screamed when pain rushed over me, in my panic. I see tan coloured fur erupt from my arms before I scream in pain as I launch myself at Tyrant just as he went to tear into Mitchells neck. My furry body collided with his and we rolled smacking the ground hard. Tyrant growls and snarls when I hear a voice in my head.
“I got this Luce” echoes a feminine voice in my head that wasn’t mine. I blink to see I am no longer in human form but wolf form. No longer in control as the mystery voice shoves me back before tearing into Tyrant viciously. She shakes our head as she bites into his flank and he whimpers before tossing her off and biting our back leg. Mitchell lay unconscious and I see Atticus jump into the fray but my wolf stands over Mitchell’s limp body and she growls, baring her teeth and snapping her jaws at them.
“Back off” I below through the mindlink and Tyrant shakes his head, cocking it to the side and staring at me. Atticus steps too close and she snaps her teeth at him when I hear snapping of bones yet she doesn’t take her eyes off Ace’s wolf.
“Lucy?” Tyson’s voice says shocked off the other side of me. Atticus growls but shifts back and my wolf stretches her sharp claws on the ground, moving the veil and letting me come forward with her. She sniffs the air and growls at them before licking the side of Mitchell’s face that was between her front legs, he doesn’t move, no reaction at all.
Both of my mates growl at her and she snarls at them in return.
“Shift back!” Ace commands at the same time as Tyson. She tries to fight their command, she whimpers having both of them force their auras over us and is forced to shift back. I cry out as my bones start snapping at alarming speed.
“Sorry Lucy,” She says in my head in a pained voice.
“What’s your name?” I ask her thankful she just saved my friend.
“Our friend, and Lucille”
I stood on all fours naked, covering Mitchell’s body and panting hard from the transition.
“You shifted!” Tyson says shocked and horrified. Ace reaches for me but I slap his hand away.
“Don’t fucking touch me unless you want to lose that hand” I snap at him.