Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Julian’s POV
In this moment, in wolf form, clinging to the top of this speeding sedan with both my front and back claws, I felt a rage stronger than that which I had ever known before.
In the past, when the airplane had taken Amber from me, I had been powerless to stop it. Here and now, I
had a chance to intervene.
The driver was turning the car erratically, swerving all over the road likely in an attempt to unhinge me
from the roof of this car. But I would be damned before I let go.
I would not lose Amber again.
This wasn’t an airplane. It was a car. And I wasn’t miles away. I was here. Now.
Nothing would keep me from saving the woman I loved. My mate. The mother of my child. The mother of my future children.
So I held on. No, I would stop this.
Grinding my claws into the roof of the car, I crawled my way to the front side, then reaching to the side, I punched in through the window. The driver shifted at the last moment, evading my blind pursuit, so I grabbed the steering wheel and ripped it out of the front console.
Any normal person would have eased up on the gas when they lost control of the vehicle. This driver, however, seemed to be following his own wild set of rules. He only pushed the accelerator more, adding
speed to the already racing car.
Straight ahead of us, the road veered to the right. Beyond it, beyond the guardrail was a massive cliff that plunged down into a tree–filled ravine.
Shit!
I gave up my pursuit of the driver then, allowing myself to slip back a ways to the backseat of the car.
There, I punched out the window and reached in for Amber. At the same moment, she reached back.
When her hand clasped mine, I yanked, pulling her through the window and into my arms.
Unfortunately, at that exact same moment, the car crashed through the guard rail and flew over the edge
of the cliff.
We seemed to hover in the air a moment before gravity claimed us and started to drag us back down to
the earth.
Looking over, I could see the fear in Amber’s wide–eyes. She seemed entirely lost to it.
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Was this freefall forcing her to relive the past? Trapped in that airplane?
Did she think she was going to die?
I wouldn’t let that happen.
Clutching her to me, I turned so that she was entirely shielded by my shifted Alpha werewolf body. I was massive like this, able to fully cover and protect her.
Bracing myself, I prepared for the pain. I was ready for it.
Whatever I had to do to keep Amber safe, I would.
My body cracked through three trees before colliding with the earth. The car must have veered to the right, as things grew dark, I saw the explosion.
Feeling the heat from the licking flames, I rolled to the side, hoping to protect Amber.
Then, blessedly, I was saved from the shooting pain throughout my entire body by passing out.
Amber’s POV
I blinked a few times, surprised to find myself not only alive, but relatively unharmed. Julian, it seemed, had taken the brunt of the damage from our fall.
Pulling myself out from his now–loosened embrace, I looked up into his shifted wolfy face. His eyes were closed, his features slack. He passed out… from the pain?
Despite my shock, my healer brain took over and I immediately began to search him for injury. Was he even still breathing?
To my relief, I find that he was. Thank the Gods. Not dead.
There was a ton of damage to his back, which was covered in cuts and deep splinters. Seeing a task now,
I set myself to removing each wooden splinter one by one. It was made easy using the light of the burning car behind me.
I tried hard not to think about what was creating those flames I was using for light, or how easily that could have been me inside of it, burning to death if the collision hadn’t killed me.
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