Chapter 350

I've just gotten Amber into her room when | hear the howl go up. | can tell there’s been a breach in the borders. Amber immediately starts crying, holding and rocking her baby in her arms.

“Shhh, you'll be safe here.” | tell her. “But | need to go fight.”

As soon as the words are out of my mouth, | feel pain slice through my shoulder. Eli has been hit. A feral snarl leaves my mouth and Maia takes over, pushing the shift, and rushing out the door past Carlos and another pack member | assume is the doctor.

| race out the back doors of the packhouse, sniffing the air to find out where they are. | can smell them, the hunters, 38 of them.

Their scent is filled with hate and fear. | can hear the bullets and what sounds like arrows whistling through the air.

| feel another shock of pain, this time in my thigh and | know Eli has been hit again. When | get there, pack members are strewn all over the ground. Eli and what is left of the warriors are outnumbered. They are fighting hard, but it’s difficult to get to the hunters to kill them.

Maia pushes harder and jumps into the fray. She doesn’t hesitate in taking the hunters down. They came here to hurt and kill our pack members and they have hurt our mate. They will not live to see another day.

We barely take notice of the stinging pain in our thigh, but it’s the sharp pain. that comes from our other thigh that let's me know that Eli has been hit again.. Maia continues to shred bodies until there are no more hunters standing. She stands, panting, looking to make sure they are dead when Louis comes up, licking her bloody muzzle and whining, before falling, unconscious.

| immediately shift, grabbing onto Eli, making sure he’s still alive. | lift my head up and howl out a call for help. The hunters may be dead, but the pack members lay injured and dying on the field of battle. | can’t lose Eli. | won't.

Pack members come running and | see Carlos among them. “Do we have a pack hospital?” | ask, taking charge quickly.

“No, we'll need to use the packhouse.” He says, as he starts checking the wolves that lay unconscious on the ground.

“Get the injured to the packhouse. We'll set up a makeshift emergency room in the dining hall.”

Noah limps over and helps me pick up Eli to carry him back. Others come and begin carrying our injured back to the packhouse.

When we get there, | lay Eli down, looking him over, “Where is that medical student?” | ask the room at large. Someone hands me a shirt and | pull it on.

It's Carlos that answers. “I'll get her, but we have another person with medical experience.”

“Get both of them here, now.” He bolts out of the dining room.

“Noah, find out who is healthy enough to run patrols. Double them until we know that there aren’t more hunters coming.”

“Yes Luna.

| look around seeing several she—-wolves looking for something to do to help. Who here has trained with Carlos?” | ask, knowing Eli said these she—wolves. would be better trained to fight than the warriors patrolling the borders.

The women look at each other. “All of us.” They say.

“Pick the strongest among you and set up a perimeter around the packhouse. If the hunters come back and get past our patrols, you are our second line of defense.” They start to move.

“Ladies.” | call their attention back to me. “No one gets through your line.” Maia has pushed forward, making my voice deep and dark.

“Yes Luna.”

Carlos returns with a man and a woman. “Luna, these are the medical students | told you about.”

| look at them as they take in the carnage of the battle. “We need to triage the injured and we need to treat your Alpha. We need to get the bullets and arrows out so the wolves can start healing. Eli’s been hit three times.” | look at him. Two silver bullets and one arrow.”

“Luna, do we have any medical supplies?”

I turn and look at Carlos. He shrugs. “Only what we may have at the pack hospital.” He says as Noah comes rushing back in.

“You and Noah go to the pack hospital and get scalpels, forceps, bandages, anything you can find. We'll have to dig these bullets out and cut the arrows out.”

They take off to find supplies as the two medical students begin assessing the injured. The woman looks up at me. “Luna, you will need that arrow removed. from your leg as well.”

+15 BONOS | look down, only now realizing one of the injuries | felt earlier was my own and | have an arrow sticking out of my leg. | extend a claw and slice the arrow down to keep it from catching on anything. “Treat them first. I’m fine.”

“Cammy.” | call out.

“Luna.” She responds from the kitchen, rushing into the room.