Untamed Fate (Magic Side: Wolf Bound 2)

reserves of my strength to reach the top.

Hundreds of thick roots blocked the way, so I summoned the knife and

began to hack.

Silent, unearthly screams echoed through my mind. The roots recoiled

and slowly began to wither as I sliced through their flesh and souls.

I buried my sudden guilt for the screaming roots and envisioned each as a

blood-red snake. Teeth gritted against the pain and exhaustion, I hacked my

way through with abandon, even as I felt the roots wrapping around my feet.

We have to get to Jax.

He was pulling me to him somehow, like I was tethered to him by an

invisible thread wrapped around my chest.

It was just the delirium of exhaustion, of course, but it gave me strength

and dragged me onward all the same.

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Jaxson

“GIVE HER TO ME!” I roared as I ripped through root and stem.

My battered, blood-slick hands could no longer grip, so I wrapped a long

root around my forearm and pulled. My muscles strained as I braced against

the rock wall, and then the thick root tore free as tendril after tendril ripped.

I’d broken a passage through the roots where Savannah had disappeared,

but the barricade of living roots kept shifting and growing back. We battled

for every inch, each of us trying to tear the other apart—but I would be

victorious.

The mate bond pulled me downward like an anchor falling toward the

ocean floor. She was so close. Weak, but alive. And she needed my help. I

could feel it with every bone in my body.

A tremor shook the cavern. It wasn’t the first, and I silently prayed to the

gods that it wasn’t the last. The tremors were growing closer together, and the

weak rock was unstable. I didn’t care. I had to reach her. Not because she

was my mate, but because she was my responsibility—she’d trusted me, and