Chapter 159: 'It recognises a moonchild'

ROSE

Raw fear gripped my heart.

So this is why Rum avoided a fight with Erasmo but not Belle; the Beta of Blue Rock pack is as agile as Rum but twice as strong. Though Rum is able to read every attack and retaliates strongly, he’s still only a fraction of a second faster.

And each time they got to each other’s neck, I forgot to breathe.

‘Your little holiday in the human world didn’t soften you as I thought,’ grunted Erasmo with a confident smirk.

‘Shut up, you fucking boulder—.’ The Alpha was gritting his teeth as he tried to keep the Beta’s hand from gripping his throat.

The smirk turned into a serious frown and Erasmo swung his elbow at Rum’s head—.

I shot to a stand.

And Rum ordered, ‘SIT DOWN!’

My hands grabbed into angry, frightened fists as I watched silently the Alpha, who had avoided the elbow from earlier, now crouching near the ground like a lion waiting for the right moment to take down his enemy.

Erasmo had lowered his upper body too, in a defense stance,