[Maverick's POV]
The world around me begins to turn red, and everything in me screams to kill as the scent of Forrest's blood overwhelms me.
Fuck. What was this? What was this feeling? What was happening to me?
"Shut up," I growl, trying to shake off what I'm feeling. "Just shut the fuck up."
"You see," he continues, holding out his arm so I can see the blood that is beginning to flow from the wound he created. "My blood makes my enemy go mad with need. Look at you, you're barely hanging on."
"I'm not," I counter as my wolf howls with desire. "That's a load…"
'No,' I hiss, knowing that if we did that, we could never return to how we once were. 'We can't.'
'But we can.' My wolf counters, takingme by surprise and terrifying me. 'It's sosimple. We just attack, and then that's it.'
"I underestimated you," he murmurs, grabbing my jaw and squeezing. "I guess I'm going to have to take more extreme methods."
No! I hiss inwardly as the sweet blood in my mouth begins to go down my throat. Serenity, get out of here, before…
The voice is so far away as it appears in my head that I ignore it completely and start to bite and slash, desperately trying to rip my opponent apart so that it will stop fighting me.
'Ours,' my wolf sings, urging me on until my mouth is around the wolf's shoulder and its blood is erupting around my teeth.
My body slams into the ground, knocking the wind out of me, but before my opponent can attack, I'mup and moving again, but when I slam into the wolf in front of me this time, I feel something in me shift, and it's like my power is disappearing completely until I'm left staggering backwards in confusion.
'Maverick,' I hear again as the wolf stares at me with pleading eyes. 'What's wrong with you?'
What's wrong with me? There's nothing wrong with me. I've never felt so alive in my life, and it's all because I got to taste the sweet taste of blood, but now that I've tasted it, I want more.
More. I think, trying to move forward, but crashing to the ground while my body begins to give out on me.
'What has happened to you?' The voice asks as the wolf moves toward me but stops as I snarl and bare my teeth. 'Who…'
It doesn't finish before the one who made me like this heads toward us, and when its eyes meet that person, it lets out a snarl of rage and rushes toward him, and when they meet, he is sent flying backward into a tree.
As I watch on, everything in me screams to help, to stop the wolf from attacking that person, but I can't as the world around me begins to fade and then disappears entirely so that I'm left floating in warm darkness.
Maverick.
Maverick.
It repeats the name again and again as light starts to swell aroundme, and then I'm staring at the most beautiful being. A woman with long, dark hair and glowing eyes that trap me and leave me stunned and in awe.