“Griffy!” Luna’s fingernails-on-a-chalkboard voice called out. She sniffed loudly.
“Ugh, I guesss Griffy and Dove made up.” The “p” popped on the last word, emphasizing her inebriated state.
“I’m so sorry about this.” He met my eyes. “But you need to go back inside, and I have to deal with my drunken mess.”
I’d bet he was going to deal with her. I bet he’d deal with her many times. Anger ignited inside of me at the thought. But I had no right. They were together, and sex was part of the equation.
I bet he was damn good at it too. “Yeah, okay. Have fun.”
“Fun isn’t the word I’d use.” He winced. “She’s a train wreck.”
And yet, he was dating her. Some guys were attracted to people like that.
Luna stumbled in between the houses and stopped when her glazed eyes focused on me.
She was toasted, which meant she’d drunk a ton and had added wolfsbane to the mix. I had no clue why she’d let herself get this sloshed.
“You,” she slurred and took a wobbly step in my direction. “Of course, he’d be out here with you.” She leaned forward, one of her sharp-nailed fingers pointing at me.
Griffin stepped in front of me, blocking me from her view. “What are you doing here, Luna?”
“You din’t answer my calls.” She shook the finger in his face. “Whut would my daaaddy say?” Was she threatening him?
“I don’t give a flying fuck what he’d say.” Griffin crossed his arms, looking unamused. “I’m the alpha, not him.”
She laughed. “For suuumone so hawt,” she continued, poking him in the chest, “yurrr stupid.”
How dare she talk to him like that? I couldn’t hold my tongue any longer. “Did you come all this way to insult him?”
Griffin tensed as Luna bared her teeth at me.
“Bish, doan talk to me.” She waved her hand dismissively at me. “Not worth my time.”
“Don’t talk to her like that.” Griffin growled. “You’re the one who showed up here wasted. You called me over twenty times, and I didn’t answer. Maybe you should’ve taken the hint.”
“You din’t git this way ’til herrr.” Her bones began to break, and fur sprouted all over her body.
I gasped at the nerve. Was she crazy enough to attack me in this drunken state? I didn’t like her, but that didn’t mean I wanted to fight her. I wanted her to leave me the hell alone.
Within seconds, she’d shifted into her wolf form, leaving her clothes lying shredded around her paws.
“Luna, what are you doing?” Griffin said sternly. “You need to stand down.”
She shook her large wolf head defiantly and ran toward us. Her eyes were locked on my neck. She intended to kill me.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
M
y wolf surged forward, but this time, for protection instead of trying to take control. I allowed the shift to happen as Luna charged at me. My skin tingled as my fur sprouted, and I quickly
removed the sheath seconds before my clothes ripped apart and fell from my body.
I hated shifting and ruining my clothes, but she would have an easier time hurting me if I didn’t shift too.
“Luna, stop,” Griffin growled as he stood protectively in front of me. He spread his legs in a fighter pose and tensed his shoulders. “Don’t make me force you with my alpha will.”
Her wolf made a choking noise that must have been a laugh. She obviously didn’t think he had the balls to force her to stop. Given the way Griffin allowed Dick to treat him, it was no wonder she didn’t think she had to listen to him. She continued to advance, clearly not concerned about his unveiled threat.
“Fine,” he growled as he crouched.
The dumbass was going to get hurt, which infuriated me. If that bitch injured him in any way, I’d kill her. My wolf howled in agreement.
Luna ran around him and lunged, but in her drunken haze, she miscalculated, and her teeth snapped at Griffin’s shoulder instead of me. He held his arms out as if that would prevent injury, but all he did was give her a better target for her teeth.
If my father was here now, he’d have been horrified at how clueless these two shifters were in the art of battle. At least, this time, my head was in the game.
In a bid to keep from adding another kill to my list and end up on the bad side of one of Shadow City’s council members, I head-butted Griffin’s ass, causing him to stumble out of the way.
“No!” he yelled. “I was handling it!”
If he’d let me focus, I would take down the drunken psycho in seconds.
A snarl ripped from her as she opened her mouth wider, going for my neck. I stood on my hind legs and let her fall, missing her mark completely. She managed to catch herself with her front paws, but they gave out, and she tumbled to the ground.
In order to prevent the fight from continuing, I jumped on her back and placed my teeth at the back of her neck, pressing them into her fur, though not enough to draw blood. If she moved, she’d cause herself injury.
Apparently, that wasn’t a deterrent because she thrashed against me, determined to get up. The metallic taste of her blood hit my tongue.
She wasn’t thinking clearly and probably didn’t even feel the pain. I’d hoped this would be easy, but clearly, I’d been mistaken.
“Luna,” Griffin yelled. “Stop it!”
She didn’t even pause because she was too desperate to hurt me.
I was going to have to knock her ass out. There was no reasoning with her in this state. I jumped off her back, and she got to her feet immediately.
The pool gave me an idea, and I ran toward it. I heard Luna follow, stumbling the entire way. I forced myself to slow down so she wouldn’t catch on to my plan. Granted, in her state, that was unlikely, but I knew not to underestimate my opponent.
For the first time in weeks, my mind cleared, and I was able to focus. That would’ve been nice earlier today with Rosemary and the drawing-and knowing what had caused the change would also be nice.