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congratulations on finding your mate,” he said. “Your mate status trumps my Alpha and Troy’s brother status in a heartbeat.  You can do what you like with your enforcers.  I’ll even help you.”
    Damien nodded to Lucius and Vincent who had stood silently to attention throughout.  “Let’s go,” he ordered as he headed back to the pack house, Kane falling in step beside him.
    “That Troy he ’s a bit mouthy,” Damien observed as they hit the tree line, “do you always let him talk to you like that?”
    “Ha,” Kane laughed. “If you think Troy’s mouthy , you wait until you get to know Scott.  Troy is the quiet one of the two.”
    Both men’s heads shot up as a set of growls greeted their ears and then one god almighty yowl.  “Shit,” said Kane, “Diablo’s shifted.  This can’t be good.”  All four men ran towards the house.

Chapter Three
    Utter carnage, were Damien’s only thoughts as he shifted.  As he and the others broke the tree line they could see wolves, four bears and a ginormous black panther all fighting furiously.  Lifting his head Damien let out an enormous howl and members of his pack came running to his side.  He noticed that Levi and Drake had obviously decided to side with the bear shifter and his motley crew.  Kane lifted his head and howled in response and Troy, Dean, Griff and Diablo all came to his side.
    For a moment all sides stood still assessing the threat.  There were four bear shifters and six wolves with the bears plus Levi and Drake.  No matter how Damien looked at it the odds of getting out of this without some serious bloodshed were next to none.   Still, this was what he and his pack members had come to do. 
    He gave himself a shake and went to howl the attack signal when Shawn and Scott came running out of the house, the two men shifting as they went.  The noise of their approach behind the attacking group divided the attacking men with two of the bear shifters heading for Shawn and Scott, while the rest headed towards Damien and Kane’s group.  Damien looked at Kane and nodded and the pair of them took off after the bears hell bent on attacking their mates, while the other wolves and Diablo headed for the others. 
    Fuck, thought Damien , as he saw one of the bear shifters reach Scott, we aren’t going to get there in time.  He could see Kane had the same thought as they ran as fast as they could.  Without thinking Damien leapt up and jumped the bear shifter that had just grabbed Scott with his claws, scratching and biting as he fell back off the bear’s back.  He leapt again determined to try and fell the big beast.  Off to his side Damien saw Shawn’s wolf was covered in a blue haze, as he and Kane worked on the bear who had attacked Shawn - one black and one white wolf working in tandem.
    Damien yelped as that moment’s inattention had left him at the mercy of his bear shifter’s claws.  Sharp pain ran down his side even as he jumped to get out of the way of further damage. The bear had turned away from Scott and was now focused on bringing Damien down. Damien barely had time to blink before the bear lunged at him and Damien leapt in response going for the bear’s throat.  Suddenly there was another wolf there with him and Damien knew it was Scott.  The wolf seemed to have blood coming down from one shoulder, although it was hard to tell as the wolf was such a dark brown color.  But Damien knew he couldn’t take the time to get distracted again.  He refocused his efforts on reaching the bear’s throat while Scott went in underneath him going for the bear’s legs.
    Snapping, snarling , and biting where they could, Damien and Scott worked together, moving quickly in and out of the bear’s reach, wearing the huge animal down until finally Scott bowled straight into the bear’s legs, bringing him down.  That was all Damien needed.  He shot forward and with one giant lunge he ripped the bear’s throat out, killing the beast