Chapter 26
Evidently, Walter didn’t know about us, because he looped his arm around my throat and started firing aimlessly around the room. “What the hell are you?” He screamed in between shots.
I heard Luna grunt, then slump over on top of Joseph. Fear rushed through me. My whole body began to shake and I when I grabbed at his arm, my fingernails had changed to long sharp claws. I felt like my insides were on fire, and my organs seemed to be moving around in my body. The smell of blood heightened my senses even more.
Everything went blank momentarily, and then it was like a surge of electricity ran through me. I felt my strength increase. My sight was suddenly much better. I spotted a tiny drop of blood across the large room fall from Joshua’s fang, and I went wild. I dropped to all fours, and a ferocious growl unlike anything I’d ever heard before came from deep inside my chest. When I peered into Walter’s eyes, they displayed utter terror. He threw up his hands in surrender, but it was too late. The hunger for blood mixed with the infusion of immense power had completely taken over.
I leaped, taking him to the floor. When I looked down at what should have been my hands, they were covered in snow-white fur. I pushed the shock out of my mind. I couldn’t think about that then. All I cared about was stopping him before he hurt anyone else. I lowered my face next to his, letting out one final ear-piercing cry, before tearing into his throat. He immediately stopped fighting and I picked him up with my long fangs and slung his lifeless body across the room.
It was unlike any feeling I had ever known before. I couldn’t control it, nor did I want to. It was like raw power mixed with dominance and adrenaline. I felt so free.
I reared up, my head touched the ceiling, and I growled with such a monstrous fury it echoed as loud as thunder throughout the house. Before I had time to think, my animal instinct took over. I crouched low and leaped across the room, colliding with Joshua. He snarled and I latched onto him. He bared his teeth and bit down; fur mixed with blood, flying about the room. I was just about to bite down and crush his throat when James flew at me, knocking me off of Joshua. Our tangled bodies rolled across the room. I sank my teeth into the back of his neck and started to bite down.
Luna screamed something in a language I’d never heard, but I somehow understood and stopped, falling to the floor.
She rushed to my side. “Genevieve! It’s okay to stop now.” When she pulled me up, I was totally spent, and collapsed in her arms.