The Secrets of the Panther
Chapter 61

IZZY

The blows keep coming. Michael keeps punching and kicking me. At least he took out the knife from my chest. I can feel Puna heal me as Michael keeps his torture up.

Our power is building up deep inside. We need to release it and aim it towards the person who has been my life’s main feature.

The door opens, and there are loads of footsteps walking in; the scent that hits me most is the one that makes me open my eyes. Staring back are people I care about in the world.

“Ah, Blake,” says Michael with a hiss, but smirks. “Just the person I wanted.”

I try to get up but fall back, making Michael laugh aloud. “Pathetic,” he says as he kicks me once more in the stomach, making me groan.

My body goes into shock, and my knees come up to my chest; I can’t help but close my eyes.

I stare back at the green eyes of Puna. She stares back at me with concern. “We can’t keep going on like this; we need to kill him now,” she says, but suddenly my head is yanked back, which makes my eyes water. Michael grips my hair and forces me to open my eyes and stare back at Blake, who two vampires are now holding as Michael has me in place.

Blake stares at me but mouths. “Izzy,” making Michael laugh. “Pathetic. She doesn’t deserve a pathetic alpha—she doesn’t deserve anyone.”

I could feel my hair being pulled out from the root. Puna is close to the surface; she wants to be free. But suddenly, I can see a few more vampires holding everyone else in place, “Everyone is going to die in front of you, Izzy, I am going to make you watch every single one of them, and then I am going to take you to that pathetic pack and watch me torture that pathetic little brat of yours.”

I couldn’t help but feel sick at the thought of Michael hurting Allie. My mother instincts kick in; Puna feels my emotions change. She knows I am fighting a losing battle to control my power, and I want him dead.

I am stronger than Michael combined. He is dead. He won’t hurt my family, my mate, and he will go nowhere near my daughter.

Suddenly, Michael connects his foot to the side of my face, which makes me fall to the side and groan once more. But the eyes were on me, pleading with me to hold on.

“I am going to enjoy this,” Blake growls loudly, but five vampires descend onto Blake while others hold everyone else. I can hear Michael walk towards Blake.

I close my eyes. “PUNA NOW” I scream at her.

Puna growls loudly and lets off the power we have been holding back since Michael tortured us. My eyes fly open, and the power explodes like a bolt of thunder in the sky, but it sends everyone flying.

Puna and I become one. Puna snaps all the chains off us, blood pouring from every open wound I have, but I felt nothing.

Michael stares back at us, his face turning into anger, but the surprise still exists.

“GET HER” he shouts.

Everyone in the compound tears apart every vampire into pieces. Blake jumps straight beside me, shifting into Axel.

Axel roars loudly, letting off his alpha aura to let anyone else know he will kill them.

All the vampires don’t care as they attack. Where the hell have they come from?

Michael is stoking towards us both, but I turn to Axel. “MATE, LET US KILL HIM,” both Puna and I say together. “WE GOT THIS.”

Axel looks at us and bows his head to us, but he runs straight into attacking all the vampires holding our friends and family.

Michael hisses. “YOU’RE ALL MINE BITCH” he shouts as he lunges at me, but Puna and I move fast, dodging him in every way, making him angrier.

I look toward Lena, who is heading straight toward us. Puna knows precisely what we need to do. We launch onto Michael, holding him down by punching him in the stomach and kicking him straight in the head. We growl loudly as we climb on top of him and hold his shoulders as Lena places her hands on mine. The power coming through both of us is intense.

Puna looks towards every single person we know. “EVERYONE DUCK,” she growls loudly as Lena chants.

Puna pushes me closer as we move closer to Michael’s ear. “Say hello to Satan, prick; this is for everything you put me through but also everyone you ever hurt,” we say together as our power ignites, and Michael screams loud as the power rushes through him and ignites him in flames. Still, the energy that comes through all three of us sends waves of fire straight around us, taking care of all the vampires in the compound.

Every vampire screams and hisses out, but their bodies are burnt to a crisp.

I watch as the person who held me back from loving and moving on bursts into flames right in front of me, but Puna closes her eyes as we ignite. Knowing we must do one more thing, we need to help Helga’s mate. We close our eyes as another power explodes, Michael’s body turns black before us, and our fuel, which connects with Lena’s, ignites more. Lena opens her eyes as she could tell what we are doing and nods to us as she chants something else, and with that, my rapist and torturer are once and forever gone, sending him to hell—the best place for him.

My eyes are still closed as Puna retreats inside as I’m pushed closer to the front. I looked at Lena, smiling, but I couldn’t keep my eyes open and fall onto her.

“IZZY,” Lena shouts as my eyes close.

I feel weak—using too much power does that to me, but not only that, the wounds I have from Michael finally caught up to me.

I don’t know what’s happening, but I can feel tingles ignite as someone picks me up. But Puna speaks before she closes her eyes.

“IT’S MATE,” she says as we both fall asleep. We need to rest and heal.