Chapter 407

SHAWN Thank god. Xenois would bring reinforcements, proper warriors, maybe even other allied alphas. "How long?" I asked. "Minutes," Lake said. "Maybe five? He's moving fast." "We hold for five minutes," I told everyone. "Whatever's coming, we hold." The attack hit like a tsunami. Creatures poured toward our position from every direction. Nightwalkers, fae, rogue werewolves, things I didn't have names for. All of them coordinated, all of them determined to break through our defense. I fired plasma blasts as fast as I could generate them. Vaporizing attackers, creating barriers of superheated air that made approach difficult, trying to thin their numbers before they reached our perimeter. But there were too many. Nathan and Izzy were fighting hand-to-hand now, their enhanced abilities letting them take on multiple opponents. But they were getting overwhelmed. Kamsi and Daniela were using everything they had—water shields, sonic disruption, magical barriers. But magic had limits, and the